Geschichte meines Lebens

Geschrieben von Giacomo Casanova

Erzählt von Otto Sander und Jürgen Thormann

Giacomo Casanova ist der berühmteste Verführer der Weltgeschichte. Keine Frau konnte seinem Charme und seinen erotischen Avancen widerstehen. In seinen Memoiren beschreibt Casanova aber viel mehr als nur seine amourösen Abenteuer. Als weit gereister Aristokrat lernte er die wichtigsten Personen seiner Zeit wie Katharina die Große, Voltaire oder Papst Benedikt XIV. kennen. Dies erlaubte ihm, ein pointiertes Bild der Gesellschaft, in der er lebte, zu zeichnen. Auch sein Aufenthalt in den Bleikammern des Dogenpalastes und seine spektakuläre Flucht daraus finden ihren Platz in seinen Erinnerungen, die von dem unvergleichlichen Otto Sander gelesen werden.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Der Audio Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10. März 2017
• ISBN: 9783742401083

Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was an Italian adventurer and author. Born in Venice, Casanova was the eldest of six siblings born to Gaetano Casanova and Zanetta Farussi, an actor and actress. Raised in a city noted for its cosmopolitanism, night life, and glamor, Casanova overcame a sickly childhood to excel in school, entering the University of Padua at the age of 12. After graduating in 1742 with a degree in law, he struggled to balance his work as a lawyer and low-level cleric with a growing gambling addiction. As scandals and a prison sentence threatened to derail his career in the church, Casanova managed to find work as a scribe for a powerful Cardinal in Rome, but was soon dismissed and entered military service for the Republic of Venice. Over the next several years, he left the service, succeeded as a professional gambler, and embarked on a Grand Tour of Europe. Towards the end of his life, Casanova worked on his exhaustive, scandalous memoirs, a 12-volume autobiography reflecting on a legendary life of romance and debauchery that brought him from the heights of aristocratic society to the lows of illness and imprisonment. Recognized for his self-styled sensationalism as much as he is for his detailed chronicling of 18th century European culture, Casanova is a man whose name is now synonymous with the kind of life he led—fast, fearless, and free.