{"product_id":"casanova-isbn-9781585428441","title":"Casanova","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A sheer testament to the power of the written word.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Giacomo Casanova's energy was dazzling. He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, and wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French Revolution-as well as his affairs and sexual encounters with dozens of women and a handful of men. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Historian Ian Kelly draws on previously unpublished documents from the Venetian Inquisition, and documents by Casanova and his friends and lovers, which give new insights into his life and world. Kelly's research spans eighteenth-century Venice, Paris, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Rome, Prague, and the Czech castle where Casanova lived, wrote, and died. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From his devotion to kabbalah to his collaboration with Mozart and librettist Da Ponte on the opera \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni\u003c\/i\u003e, from his vast appetite for food and sex to his training for the priesthood, Casanova reveled in the commedia dell'arte. And, as Kelly posits, it is from Casanova's careful study of its artifice and illusion that his success as both a libertine and a libertarian was founded.Ian Kelly’s books \u003ci\u003eCooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme, the First Celebrity Chef\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeau Brummell: The Ultimate Man of Style\u003c\/i\u003e were published to wide acclaim in both the United Kingdom and the United States. A writer, an actor, and the director of television documentaries, he writes frequently about food and travel for many British publications, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London with his wife and their two children.","brand":"Tarcher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303040831717,"sku":"NP9781585428441","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781585428441.jpg?v=1767723448","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/casanova-isbn-9781585428441","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}