Showing posts with label Men of Letters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Men of Letters. Show all posts

Monday, March 26, 2012

Men of Letters

Engaging, if puffy, piece in Smithsonian about Casanova and his autobiography:

Who Was Casanova?

The personal memoir of history's most famous lover reveals a misunderstood intellectual who befriended the likes of Ben Franklin



Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Who-Was-Casanova.html#ixzz1qElAbhjr

I really ought to read this at some point - I feel like it's one of those Western classics that I am aware of, but don't really know that much about... But I'd need to find a good translation. Is there a definitive English edition?