Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved

ISBN-13: 9780747585411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str.

Judith Summers

Opis

Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova was history's most famous seducer who talked his way into the beds of more than 200 women. Charming, brilliant and devastatingly attractive, this womaniser could also be ruthless, cruel, selfish and dishonest. This book

Recenzje

'Summers relays all the most succulent scandals from the life of the famous womaniser ... Cataloguing his liaisons with a succession of nuns, slaves, aristocrats, prostitutes, wives, virgins, cross-dressers and performers, Summers reveals a contradictory character who relished every challenge and tilted at taboos ... The cases of fraud are fun to read. They sit alongside his daring prison breaks as the actions of an adventurer and we snicker at the gullibility of his dupes' Daily Telegraph

O autorze

Judith Summers is the author of four novels and two non-fiction books, The Empress of Pleasure and the prize-winning Soho, A History of London's Most Colourful Neighbourhood. Born and brought up in London, she studied Fine Art in Bristol and Manchester, and trained as a film editor with the BBC. After becoming a tourist guide, she discovered a passion for historical research. She has written widely on London, and lives in north London.