Cartas de Casanova: Lisboa 1757

Casanova reaches Lisbon in mid-1757, soon after his escape from the Piombi in Venice, and the devastation left by the earthquake exceeds anything he could have pictured. For six weeks he tries to understand how the city's people have made their peace with such disorder, meeting the merchant Ratton, noblemen, a bookseller, the poet Correia Garção and a mysterious marquis, and at last Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, the future Marquis of Pombal, whom he hopes to win over to a scheme for a state lottery. Between seductions and losses at cards, he writes half a dozen letters to people who mattered to him.

AI-generated summary

About the book

Form

Novel

Length

206 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Portugal, 1757

First published

2013 by Sextante

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9789896761653 (original)