This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Malina Stefanovska

Part I: Libertine Traces

1. "Triompher par la force": Sexual Violence and Its Representation in Casanova’s History of My Life
Raphaëlle Brin

2. The Writer of Dux: Casanova’s Dialogue with His Ladies from Autobiography to Correspondence
Bruno Capaci

3. Casanova and the Undifferentiated Body
Mladen Kozul

Part II: Emerging Sociabilities

4. Negotiating Sociabilities in Casanova’s History of My Life
Clorinda Donato

5. Casanova, Mercury, Mercurio
Malina Stefanovska

6. Casanova, the Love of Paris
Pierre Saint-Amand

7. Paris in Three Movements
Chantal Thomas

Part III: Representational Shifts and Legacies

8. Rewriting, Revolution, Melancholy: Two Versions of the First Stay in Paris
Jean-Christophe Igalens

9. Casanova: From Man to Myth
Michel Delon

10. Fellini’s Casanova: The Story of a Man Who Was Never Born
Christopher B. White

Contributors

Index