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Giacomo Jacopo Girolamo Casanova 卡薩諾瓦
卡薩諾瓦這個名字恐怕沒有幾個人不知道，因為這個人物的風流韻史，它在英語中已經成了花花公子的代名詞。他的自傳記錄了18世紀歐洲的生活面貌，為人們留下了寶貴的資料。
The first child of an actor and actress, Casanova was born in Venice. He set out to play the comedy of life with a short role as an ecclesiastic but was expelled from the seminary in 1743. He found refuge in Rome with Cardinal Acquaviva, the first of his many powerful protectors. By 1745 he had returned to Venice, where he practiced magic. Forced to flee prosecution for engaging in the black arts, Casanova drifted from city to city. In Lyons in 1750 he joined the Free Masons, an allegiance that gave him support in the noble, free thinking circles of cosmopolitan Europe. Gambling, profiteering, and amorous activities marked his first stay in Paris (1750-1753). His luck held until 1755, when he was imprisoned in Venice for "black magic, licentiousness, and atheism." His spectacular escape is chronicled in the only portion of his memoirs to appear during his lifetime (1788).
The years 1756-1763 brought Casanova his most brilliant successes in a society dedicated to games of love and chance. Voltaire, whom he met briefly, judged him to be a "mixture of science and imposture," a suspect combination which nevertheless brought Casanova in contact with Frederick II and Catherine the Great.
Casanova himself divided his life into "three acts of a comedy." The second, which he thought of as lasting from 1763 to 1783, was less droll than the first. Protectors were less willing, and as the adventurer's brilliance faded, his charlatanism became more evident. From 1774 to 1782 Casanova added to his repertoire the role of "secret agent" for the Republic of Venice, but he was less a spy than an informer.
Again obliged to leave Venice, Casanova began the third act of his comedy penniless and on the road. But in 1785 he gained the protection of the Count of Waldstein, in whose chateau at Dux (Bohemia) he stayed until his death in 1798. There he wrote his celebrated History of My Life, ending with the events of 1774, after which he had "only sad things to tell." Written in sometimes imperfect French, this work moves rapidly and frankly through vast amounts of personal and social detail. Besides tales of the 122 women whose favors he claims to have enjoyed, Casanova offers a chronicle of social extravagance and decline and a vision of Europe as complex and colorful as the bawdy, elegant, naively rational, desperately pretentious, and comic figure of "Seingalt" himself.
Casanova's writings also include miscellaneous gallant verse, several treatises on mathematics, a three-volume refutation of Amelot de la Houssaye's history of Venetian government (1769), a translation of the Iliad (1775), and a five-volume novel of fantastic adventure to the center of the earth, Icosameron (1788). (answers.com)
考考你
將下面的句子譯成漢語。
1. Shake off your chains of monogamy. You're a free man.
2. What happened to the Nova I knew in high school?
American pie 2《美國派》2精講之一 考考你 參考答案
1. 有些人認為巴瑞是個膽小鬼，但當他從一幢熊熊大火的房子里救出一個小孩子時，這個時刻才顯示出他的真正品質。
Some people thought Barry was a coward, but his moment of truth came when he rescued a child from a burning house.
2. 鬧鐘響了都十分鐘了，起床吧！
The alarm went off ten minutes ago, so get rolling.
3. 這首歌真讓人惡心。
The song really sucks.
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