{"product_id":"9781596917057","title":"Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved","description":"Told from the perspective of his innumerable sexual conquests, \u003cbr\u003eCasanova's Women renders a vivid flesh-and-blood portrait of the famed \u003cbr\u003ephilanderer, clearing away the myth while illuminating the lives of the \u003cbr\u003ewomen who have too long languished in the shadows. The \u003cbr\u003eeighteenth-century Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova used his \u003cbr\u003emagnetic personality to talk his way into the beds of more than two \u003cbr\u003ehundred women. Charming, brilliant, and devastatingly attractive, he \u003cbr\u003eclaimed to like women and to understand their emotional and sexual \u003cbr\u003eneeds. To those he truly loved, he was the perfect lover--thoughtful, \u003cbr\u003egenerous, and imaginative. To others he could be ruthless, selfish, and \u003cbr\u003edishonest. Judith Summers's exuberant and candidly erotic biography \u003cbr\u003ereveals how Giacomo Casanova, a sickly son of Venetian actors, went on \u003cbr\u003eto transcend the rigid social boundaries of the eighteenth century to \u003cbr\u003ekeep company with kings and beguile beautiful women. With original \u003cbr\u003eresearch culled from period diaries, wills, correspondence, and memoirs,\u003cbr\u003e this unique look at the legendary lady-killer gives voice to the many \u003cbr\u003ewomen on whose naked backs Casanova's reputation was built.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177042723056,"sku":"9781596917057","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781596917057_p0.jpg?v=1763813858","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781596917057","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}