Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests (Penguin Great Loves) - Softcover

Casanova, Giacomo

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9780141032795: Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests (Penguin Great Loves)

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ISBN 10: 0141032790 ISBN 13: 9780141032795

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2007

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Casanova was the most notorious lover in history. From seducing a nun in an elaborate boudoir, watched by her lover, to frolicking in a bath with a beautiful girl and an eccentric old lady to trick her of her jewels, his memoir describes his amorous encounters in intimate detail.

United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love....

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Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born in Venice, the son of actors who wanted him to become a priest. Instead he had numerous occupations, and is remembered as one of history's great lovers.

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