Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova pdf

Leo Damrosch 是一位美国作家和教授。 2001年，他被任命为哈佛大学欧内斯特·伯恩鲍姆文学教授。 [1] 他获得了学士学位。 耶鲁大学，剑桥大学文学硕士，马歇尔学者，博士。 来自普林斯顿大学。 他的学术专长领域包括浪漫主义、启蒙运动和清教主义。 [1] 达姆罗施的《贵格会耶稣的悲伤》是最近对朋友协会早期历史最重要的探索之一。 他的 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005) 是美国国家图书奖非小说类作品的决赛入围者，也是 2006 年 L. L. Winship/PEN 新英格兰最佳非小说类作品奖的获得者。 他的其他著作包括《布莱克神话中的象征与真理》（1980 年）、《上帝的阴谋与人的故事：从弥尔顿到菲尔丁的虚构想象研究》（1985 年）、《休谟和约翰逊时代的现实小说》 （1987 年）和“托克维尔发现美洲”（2010 年）。

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova pdf 里奥·达姆罗施

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.