A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch
Leo Damrosch Boeken
Leo Damrosch is een vooraanstaand Amerikaans auteur en professor wiens werk diep ingaat op de intellectuele geschiedenis en literatuurwetenschap. Zijn academische focus ligt op cruciale periodes zoals de Verlichting, de Romantiek en het Puritanisme, wat zijn inzichtelijke analyses vormgeeft. Damroschs boeken bieden frisse perspectieven op belangrijke historische en literaire figuren en bewegingen, waardoor ons begrip van de evolutie van denken en kunst wordt verrijkt. Zijn geschriften worden geprezen om hun eruditie en hun vermogen om complexe ideeën toegankelijk te maken voor een breed publiek.
Jonathan Swift
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From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language
The life of the iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) has never been told in the depth it deserves. An alluring representative of the Enlightenment’s shadowy underside, Casanova was an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a magus, a violinist, a mathematician, a Masonic master, an entrepreneur, a diplomat, a gambler, a spy—and the first to tell his own story. In his vivid autobiography Histoire de Ma Vie, he recorded at least a hundred and twenty love affairs, as well as dramatic sagas of duels, swindles, arrests, and escapes. He knew kings and an empress, Catherine the Great, and most of the famous writers of the time, including Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin. Drawing on seldom used materials, including the original French and Italian primary sources, and probing deeply into the psychology, self-conceptions, and self-deceptions of one of the world’s most famous con men and seducers, Leo Damrosch offers a gripping, mature, and devastating account of an Enlightenment man, freed from the bounds of moral convictions.
The Club
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Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of the Club, a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern