Casanova's memoirs are an unreliable account of his adventures with 122 women, according to his own counts, but they also provide an intimate portrait of the manners and life in the 18th century.
Giacomo Casanova, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, John Cleland, Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay, Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, Eliza Haywood, J. P. Jacobsen, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Virginia Woolf, Giovanni Boccaccio, Gustave Flaubert & Denis Diderot
John Cleland, Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay, Giacomo Casanova, Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, Eliza Haywood, J. P. Jacobsen, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Virginia Woolf, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Gustave Flaubert & Denis Diderot