A rollicking autobiographical account by one of the most iconic figures of eighteenth-century Europe, The Duel is presented here with an extract about the same event from Casanova’s memoirs, written fifteen years later.
The Italian nobleman and polymath Giacomo Casanova (1725–98), famous in his lifetime for his brilliant intellect and his romantic exploits, is now recognized as one of the greatest chroniclers of eighteenth-century Europe.
The remarkable thing about Giacomo Casanova is that not only did he
have a bewilderingly eventful life, not only was he a thinker of
wide reading and great shrewdness, but he also knew how to tell a
tale as well as the cleverest of novelists.
*Tim Parks*
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