Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Jacques Casanova

Giacomo Casanova

1725–1798

Best known for the vivid memoir Histoire de ma vie, this Venetian adventurer turned his restless life into one of the most famous self-portraits in European literature. His story moves through salons, prisons, gambling tables, and royal courts, capturing the energy of the 18th century along the way.