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1) Adventurer: the life and times of Giacomo Casanova

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Damrosch, Leopold

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Yale University Press

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[2022]

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English

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B CASANOV G

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[2022]	Yale University Press	vii, 422 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm	English	Available Central - Adult New Biography 1 available B CASANOV G	More Info Place Hold

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The iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was a storied adventurer through the Enlightenment's shadowy underside. Known as a serial seducer, he was also an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a violinist, a mathematician, a Masonic master, an entrepreneur, a diplomat, a gambler, and a spy. The first to tell his own story, in his massive autobiography Histoire de Ma Vie, he recorded at least a hundred and twenty love...

2) Eternity's sunrise: the imaginative world of William Blake

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Damrosch, Leopold

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Yale University Press

Pub. Date

[2015]

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English

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821 BLAKE DAMRO

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[2015]	Yale University Press	ix, 332 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 821 BLAKE DAMRO	More Info Place Hold

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"William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experience - social, political,...