Casanova's Homecoming (Esprios Classics)

Casanova was in his fifty-third year. Though no longer driven by the lust of adventure that had spurred him in his youth he was still hunted athwart the world hunted now by a restlessness due to the approach of old age. His yearning for Venice the city of his birth grew so intense that like a wounded bird slowly circling downwards in its death flight he began to move in ever-narrowing circles.