Rafael Sabatini

Casanova's Alibi illustrated Rafael Sabatini

Casanova's Alibi and Other Stories by Rafael Sabatini -There can be little doubt--although it is not explicitly so stated inhis memoirs--that it was the sight of the mast of a fruit-boat beforethe window of his prison that first aroused the notion in his fertilebrain. But let us begin at the beginning of this story of one of the earliestexploits of that Giacomo di Casanova who has been so aptly called thePrince of Adventurers, and whom some have accounted the very Prince ofScoundrels.