CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, Giacomo Girolamo.] Di aneddoti viniziani militari, ed amorosi del secolo decimoquatro sotto i dogadi di Giovanni Gradenigo e di Giovanni Dolfin . Venice: Modesto Fenzo, 1782. 8°. Woodcut device to title, printed on thick paper. (A few light spots.) Contemporary boards, paper label (label torn and starting to detach). Provenance : J. Pollio (bookplate) and a 2-page autograph letter by J. Pollio, Casanova's bibliographer, addressed to "Cher monsieur et ami", dated August 1924, sending him this copy and offering him another book by Casanova. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. The Aneddoti , which Casanova admitted he wrote only for money, are an adaptation of Madame Tencin's romance La siège de Calais , published in 1739, "with only a change of characters and scene. The siege of Calais has become the siege of Nona near Zara, and the protagonists, Venice and Hungary, instead of France and England. Edward III has been replaced by King Ludovico of Hungary, M. de Canaple by Carlo Zen M. de Chalons by Michele Zen, and M. D'Arondel by Carlo Spinola." (Rives Childs). The Aneddoti were not reprinted until 1926. Pollio pp. 88-91; Rives Childs XXVII.
CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, Giacomo Girolamo.] Di aneddoti viniziani militari, ed amorosi del secolo decimoquatro sotto i dogadi di Giovanni Gradenigo e di Giovanni Dolfin . Venice: Modesto Fenzo, 1782. 8°. Woodcut device to title, printed on thick paper. (A few light spots.) Contemporary boards, paper label (label torn and starting to detach). Provenance : J. Pollio (bookplate) and a 2-page autograph letter by J. Pollio, Casanova's bibliographer, addressed to "Cher monsieur et ami", dated August 1924, sending him this copy and offering him another book by Casanova. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. The Aneddoti , which Casanova admitted he wrote only for money, are an adaptation of Madame Tencin's romance La siège de Calais , published in 1739, "with only a change of characters and scene. The siege of Calais has become the siege of Nona near Zara, and the protagonists, Venice and Hungary, instead of France and England. Edward III has been replaced by King Ludovico of Hungary, M. de Canaple by Carlo Zen M. de Chalons by Michele Zen, and M. D'Arondel by Carlo Spinola." (Rives Childs). The Aneddoti were not reprinted until 1926. Pollio pp. 88-91; Rives Childs XXVII.
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