Simon Prebble
Author
Description
At midnight on October 31, 1756, Giacomo Casanovayes, that Casanovaescaped from a Venetian prison with help from a defrocked friar named Balbi. But instead of continuing to Munich, as his memoirs record, he stopped at an inn called The Stag in the Italian village of Bolzano. There he rested, secured a loan from a friend, and resumed his old life of seduction and debauchery. Or so Sndor Mrai's account goes. Written within the framework of historical...