![]() This third volume contains the fifth and sixth sections: the fifth section, "In London and Moscow", and the sixth section, "Spanish Passions". He financed business projects, organized lotteries, wrote opera libretti, and dabbled in high politics. In his time he was a diplomat, businessman, trainee priest, traveler, prisoner, magician, confidence man, gambler, professional entertainer, and charlatan. His appetite for life is voracious for him, a life lived close to the precipice is the only life worth living. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. He holds a verbal duel with Voltaire, a pistol duel with a Polish noble, and finds himself hauled before the court multiple times, including in London, where the judge in question turns out to be none other than Henry Fielding. He falls madly in love, has wild flings, and delirious orgies, and encounters some of the most brilliant figures of his time, including Catherine the Great, Louis XV, and Benjamin Franklin. Intense and scandalous, Casanova's extraordinary adventures take the listener on an incredible voyage across 18th-century Europe - from France to Russia, Poland to Spain, and Turkey to Germany, with Venice at their heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Story of My Life is the explosive and exhilarating autobiography by the infamous libertine Giacomo Casanova. ![]()
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