Leo Damrosch
Everyone has heard of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), but who was the man behind the myth? 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's Adventurer offers a gripping, mature, and devastating account of an Enlightenment man, freed from the bounds of moral convictions.

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