Data di Pubblicazione:
2021
Citazione:
Giacomo Casanova et Cecille von Roggendorff : lettres de sa dernière correspondante / E. Grazioli. - In: TEXTUAL CULTURES. - ISSN 1559-2936. - 14:2(2021), pp. 177-194. [10.14434/tc.v14i2.33657]
Abstract:
This essay attempts to analyze the exchange between Giacomo Casanova and Cecilia von
Roggendorff, during the two years before Casanova’s death in Dux, Bohemia (4 June 1798).
Such correspondence represents the step-by-step evolution of a teacher-pupil relationship
into a father-daughter one, with the old libertine getting increasingly worried about her. Our
analysis follows such mutual exchange through everyday matters such as Casanova’s illness
and Cecilia’s melancholy, the former’s attempt to place her into the court as the duke Pierre
de Curlande’s maid of honor. By means of a letter-by-letter account, some light is shed on
the interlocutors and Casanova’s narration in his Histoire de ma vie, which omits his last
years spent in Dux.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
E. Grazioli
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