CASANOVAS. Guy EndoreJohn Day ($5).
On April 2, 1725, in Venice, was born Giacomo Giralamo Casanova, possibly a bastard, probably a most consummate liar, certainly a very exceptional rogue. His father, Gaetan, was ''amorous, but without means;" his mother, Zanetta, an actress, no better than she should have been. Young Casanova's propensities, thus honestly acquired, were opportunist, not to say immoral, and he followed his bent. When he was 72, he wrote his famed Memoirs, The Story of My Life Until the Year 1797.
The young Giacomo was clever, and when the opportunity of a...
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