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“I was born for the sex opposite to mine. I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it.”
-- Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-1798)
Alas, middle-age also seemed to take a serious toll on him and his love life. Age is a merciless tyrant.
His massive memoir sold for ten-million dollars in 2010, and it is expected to go online. Hence the renewed interest in the man, the legend.
It's a more interesting story than I knew, but I only knew the cliche:
“He would have been surprised to discover that he is remembered first as a great lover,” says Tom Vitelli, a leading American Casanovist, who contributes regularly to the international scholarly journal devoted to the writer, L’Intermédiaire des Casanovistes. “Sex was part of his story, but it was incidental to his real literary aims. He only presented his love life because it gave a window onto human nature.”
I see that a very affordable edition of the unexpurgated memoir is available for the Kindle. It might make an interesting companion to Sylvia Plath's journals in my book-blogging.
-- Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-1798)
Alas, middle-age also seemed to take a serious toll on him and his love life. Age is a merciless tyrant.
His massive memoir sold for ten-million dollars in 2010, and it is expected to go online. Hence the renewed interest in the man, the legend.
It's a more interesting story than I knew, but I only knew the cliche:
“He would have been surprised to discover that he is remembered first as a great lover,” says Tom Vitelli, a leading American Casanovist, who contributes regularly to the international scholarly journal devoted to the writer, L’Intermédiaire des Casanovistes. “Sex was part of his story, but it was incidental to his real literary aims. He only presented his love life because it gave a window onto human nature.”
I see that a very affordable edition of the unexpurgated memoir is available for the Kindle. It might make an interesting companion to Sylvia Plath's journals in my book-blogging.
