Author: Matteo Strukul
Book title: Giacomo Casanova – La sonata deicuoriinfranti (sonata of the broken hearts)
Narrator: Nebojša Skenderi [Neboysha Skenderi]
Duration: 8 hours and 36 minutes
No. of pages in black print: 279
Publisher: Vulkan [Voolkahn]
Place and year of publishing: Belgrade, 2019
About the book:
A libertine, a seducer, a writer, a rebel, an alchemist, a swordsman, an adventurer, a traveller. One of history’s most unbelievable antiheroes. MagnificentCasanova. It’s 1755. Tired and dark, Venice stands on the brim of abyss but still will not give away its title of the Serenissima.Giacomo Casanova has returned to the city, and the precarious equilibrium on which the Republic rests at the European political scene, built on unreliable alliances, risks shattering and degenerating into chaos.Doge Francesco Loredan is in very poor health, and the inquisitor Pietro Garzoni plots behind him to obtain the succession to the Doge. His forbidden dream is to arrest the seducer, and to get him out of the way once and for all. In addition, countessvon Steinberg, famous for her remarkable beauty, is in the city and presents Casanova with a challenge: if he manages to seduce the beautiful Francesca Erizzo, daughter of one of the most important people in the city, then she will give in to him. Naive girl falls into a trap, but the game soon becomes something much deeper and Casanova really falls in love with his prey.Between canals immersed in the mist and patrician palaces of dazzling beauty, inseductive and merciless Venice, Matteo Strukul tells the adventurous story on seduction as dangerous arms in the battle for power.
