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History of My Life, vol. 7 and 8

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''Trask's exemplary translation . . . makes the real Casanova accessible in English . . . as strange, as diverse, as compelling as fiction.''–John Simon, Book Week In volumes 7 and 8, Casanova is now close to forty. His various manipulations of the credulous rich have made him rich in turn. His travels take him to France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. In Rome he charms the Pope; in Naples, he nearly marries a young woman as licentious as he is himself, but she turns out to be his daughter.

""Trask 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.""

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