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Introduction by Gilberto Pizzamiglio Note on the Text Translators' Note
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
Family history. My first memory. Journey to Padua.
Preface
I
II
My grandmother boards me at the home of Doctor Gozzi. My first acquaintance with love.
III
Bettina believed to be mad. Father Mancia. The pox. I leave Padua.
IV
The patriarch of Venice confers the minor orders on me. Getting to know Senator Malipiero, Teresa Imer, Father Tosello's niece, Signora Orio, Nanetta, Marta, and La Cavamacchie. I become a preacher. My adventure at Pasiano with Lucia.
V
My brief but highly eventful visit to Ancona. Cecilia, Marina, Bellino. The Greek slave girl from the lazaretto. Bellino revealed.
VI
Bellino Unmasked. His Story
VII
Comic encounter at Orsara. Journey to Corfu. Sojourn in Constantinople. Bonneval. My return to Corfu.
VIII
I became a true good-for-nothing. A great stroke of luck raises me from destitution to the rank of wealthy gentleman.
IX
My apprenticeship in Paris. Portraits. Oddities. A thousand things.
X
My blunders in the French language, my successes, my many acquaintances. Louis XV. My brother arrives in Paris.
XI
My sojourn in Vienna. Joseph II. My departure for Venice.
XII
First meeting with M. M. Letter from C. C. Second meeting with the nun in my superb casino in Venice. I am happy.
XIII
Continuation of the preceding chapter. Visit to the convent and conversation with M. M. Her letter to me and my answer. Rendezvous at the casino in Murano, witnessed by her lover.
XIV
Under the lead roof. The earthquake.
XV
Soradaci's betrayal. The means I used to overwhelm him. Father Balbi succeeds in his task. I leave my cell. Count Asquini's untimely remarks. The moment of departure.
XVI
My escape from the prison. I nearly lose my life on the roof. I leave the Ducal Palace, take ship and reach the mainland. Father Balbi exposes me to danger. The ruse by which I separate from him for the moment.
XVII
Voltaire, my discussions with the great man. Ariosto. The duke of Villars. The syndic and his three lovely ladies. Debate at Voltaire's house.
XVIII
Cardinal Passionei. The pope. Mariuccia. My arrival in Naples.
XIX
I reach Marseilles. Mme. D'Urfé. My niece is well received by Mme. Audibert. I get rid of my brother and Passano. Regeneration. Mme. d'Urfé departs. Marcolina's constancy.
XX
My arrival in London. Mrs. Cornelys. I am presented at Court. I rent a furnished house. I meet many people. The customs of the English.
XXI
Lord Keith. Appointment with the king of Prussia in the garden of Sans Souci. My conversation with the monarch. La Denis. The Pomeranian cadets.
XXII
I meet the czarina. My conversations with the great Sovereign. La Valville. I leave Zaira. My departure from St. Petersburg and arrival in Warsaw. Princes Adam Czartoryski and Sulkowski. The king of Poland, Stanislaus Poniatowski, called Stanislaus Augustus I. Theatrical intrigues. Branicki.
XXIII
My duel with Branicki.
XXIV
My departure from Paris. My journey to Madrid. The count of Aranda. The prince of La Catolica. The duke of Losada. Mengs. A ball. La Pichona. Doña Ignacia.
XXV
My courtship of Doña Ignacia, the gentleman-cobbler's daughter. My imprisonment at Buen Retiro and my triumph. I am recommended to the Venetian ambassador by a State Inquisitor of the Republic.
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Gary Hill
reviewed The Story of My Life on July 10, 2010 The Story of My Life
Casanova famously replied to a woman who asked him what he sought, 'A moment that lasts a lifetime.'
Although she flew past him she left an impression, an imprint, like no other. When he was writing his memoirs in old age, impoverished financially but rich in memories, she blazed back into life for him again, untarnished, forever young and forever his.
There's an instinct to possess, and it's a hard lesson to finally understand that nobody can possess anything, least of all another human being.
Casanova grasped that the most we can have is fleeting moments that encapsulate transient joys and preserve them in memory like flies in amber, to be contemplated and cherished later, when everything has changed.
There are certain people I would love to gobble up, possess, kiss and love to pieces while there's still time. But time itself is the problem. These people have changed, though parts of them are scattered across the years like fragments of meteorites that burned up in our atmosphere, and some of those fragments persist and continue to glow incandescently.
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