The Lost Diary of Don Juan

It was a time of discovery and decadence, when life became a gamble and the gold that poured endlessly into the port of Sevilla devalued money, marriage, and love itself. In the midst of these treacherous times, Juan Tenorio is born and then abandoned in the barn of a convent. Raised secretly by the nuns, he learns to love and worship all women and wants nothing more than to be a priest, until he falls in love with one of the sisters. When their affair is discovered, Juan leaves the Church forever. He is soon recruited to be a spy by the powerful Marquis de la Mota, who teaches him to become the world's greatest libertine and seducer of women. But when he crosses swords with the most powerful man in the Empire, Don Juan must escape the murderous fury of the Inquisitor who battles all forms of debauchery, deviance, and heresy.It is after knowing countless women that he is convinced by the Marquis to keep a diary, and it is here within its pages that Don Juan reveals his greatest adventures and the Arts of Passion he mastered. But what finally compels him to confess everything and risk losing his life, livelihood, and honor is the most perilous adventure of all -- the irresistible fall into the madness of love with the only woman who could ever make him forget all others.

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Douglas Carlton Abrams

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Editor's NoteRumors and LiesA Flicker of PassionThe Desire of a WomanNo One Will Ever KnowNot Every Man with a Mask Is a BurglarThe Love of His AngelsA Vision of GodThis I Cannot Do at Any PriceLike Salt into the LandA Man Is Not Just What He Is BornThe Education of a LibertineGold in the Veins of SevillaThe Slave MarketTaberna del PirataSecrets Never Stay BuriedA Thousand Nights with a StrangerCorpus ChristiThe BullfightSins of the FleshThe Deadliest SinAlma's IntuitionThe Masquerade PartyDuchess Cristina's InvitationThe TruthKnowledge That Could Lead to Our RuinAlma's ReturnA New WorldA Moth to a FlameA Tour of HeavenA Child of Deception and CrueltyThe Wager of LoveThe Secret of MarriageSafe PassageAlma's TemptationIn the Name of the Holy InquisitionConfession at the AlcázarDueling on the Rooftops of SevillaDoña Ana's BedchamberA FarewellThe Last Night: A Final EntryGlossary and NotesAcknowledgmentsAuthor's Note