The empress of pleasure : the life and adventures of Teresa Cornelys - queen of masquerades and Casanova's lover
by
 
Summers, Judith.

Title
: 
The empress of pleasure : the life and adventures of Teresa Cornelys - queen of masquerades and Casanova's lover

Author
: 
Summers, Judith.

ISBN
: 
9780670912582

Personal Author
: 
Summers, Judith.

Publication Date
: 
2003

Publication Information
: 
London : Viking, 2003.

Physical Description
: 
xxi, 338 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 24 cm.

Abstract
: 
Outrageous, ingenious and indomitable, Mrs Cornelys enjoyed immense wealth and success during her lifetime. She came to London in 1759 aged 36, a Venetian-born opera singer and mother of Casanova's child. Imprisoned for bankruptcy, she bounced back, eventually dying of cancer in 1797.

Personal Subject
: 
Cornelys, Teresa.

Subject Term
: 
Impresarios -- Great Britain -- Biography.
 
Mistresses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
 
Biography.

Geographic Term
: 
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.


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Kensington Central Library920 CORNBook30116012674717Biography store collection
Westminster City Archives920 CORNELYSReference book30117026153854Archives' Search Room