1725 to Italian and Spanish parentage, Giacomo Casanova lived a long and exciting life. A scholar and an adventurer, Casanova traveled widely throughout Europe and Russia associating with rulers and Kings. Of course Casanova is most well-known for his womanizing and he reveals time after time how he just couldn’t help falling in love! His eloquence and charm will not be lost on the listener either: the writing is remarkably modern, accessible and funny, too. It took Casanova eighteen years to write his memoirs and a further one hundred for them to be classified as genuine. In this audio recording, Casanova charts his childhood and life as a young man in Venice and Italy. A tie-in Recording to the Heath Ledger film Casanova in 2005 Read By Benedict Cumberbatch Abridged Recording Date: 2006 mp3/64Kbps