Conversations with Casanova

Imagined by one of the world's leading experts on Casanova, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of history's most famous lover. Renowned as a great lover and seducer, Giacomo Casanova was far more than a bed-hopping rake. He founded the world s first national lottery, discussed theories of taxation with Frederick the Great, talked theology with Pope Clement XIII and lectured on Horace and Homer. He was also an accomplished swindler, an extraordinary wit, a brilliant philosopher, a formidable duellist and a notable spy. Imagined by one of the world's leading experts, this innovative biography does full justice to its subject's multi-faceted talents. As Dita Von Teese says in her Foreword: ''In my most amorous fantasies, I spend languid days and glittering nights with a true Casanova a man with a heartfelt passion for life, a thirst for knowledge and adventure, and of course a lust for refined romance.'' Be seduced by this brilliant book.