文档介绍：英文名著 3000 本
Old Age and Death
By Jacques Casanova
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MEMOIRS OF JACQUES
CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-
1798 SPANISH PASSIONS, Volume
6e--OLD AGE AND DEATH
THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE
SEINGALT
THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF
1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO
WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS
DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.
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OLD AGE AND DEATH OF
CASANOVA
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APPENDIX AND SUPPLEMENT
Whether the author died before the work plete,
whether the concluding volumes were destroyed by
himself or his literary executors,or whether the MS. fell
into bad hands, seems a matter of uncertainty,and the
materials available towards a continuation of the Memoirs
are extremely fragmentary. We know, however, that
Casanova at last eeded in obtaining his pardon from
the authorities of the Republic, and he returned to Venice,
where he exercised the honourable office of secret agent
of the State Inquisitors--in plain language, he became a
spy. It seems that the Knight of the Golden Spur made a
rather indifferent "agent;" not surely, as a French writer
suggests, because the dirty work was too dirty for his
fingers, but probably because he was getting old and
stupid and out-of-date, and failed to keep in touch with
new forms of turpitude. He left Venice again and paid a
visit to Vienna, saw beloved Paris once more, and there
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met Count Wallenstein, or Waldstein. The conversation
turned on magic and the occult sciences, in, which
Casanova was an adept, as the reader of the Memoirs will
remeber, and the count took a fancy to the charlatan.
In short Casanova became librarian at the count's Castle of
Dux, near Teplitz, and there he spent the fourteen
remaining years of his life.
As the Prince de Ligne (from whose Memoirs we learn
these part