The History of My Life: Volumes 5 and 6
In volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start the French State Lottery, goes on to Switzerland where he meets Voltaire.
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"These memoirs are compulsive reading... they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents." — J. H. Plumb, New York Times Book ReviewIn volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start the French State Lottery, goes on to Switzerland where he meets Voltaire.
\ New York Review of BooksTrask expertly rendered this text into English in 1966, and his is the English version to read... Compulsively readable... Certainly, few books better convey the sheer, exuberant joy of being alive and young than these reminiscences.\ — Michael Dirda\ \ \ \ \ \ National Book Award CitationTrask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original.\ \ \ New York Times Book ReviewThese memoirs are compulsive reading... they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents.\ — J. H. Plumb\ \ \ \ \ \ New York Times Book ReviewThese memoirs are compulsive reading... they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents.\ — J. H. Plumb\ \ \ \ \ \ New York Review of BooksTrask expertly rendered this text into English in 1966, and his is the English version to read... Compulsively readable... Certainly, few books better convey the sheer, exuberant joy of being alive and young than these reminiscences.\ — Michael Dirda\ \ \ \ \ \ National Book Award CitationTrask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original.\ \ \
