Calle della Piscina 1673: Lord Byron, Marianna Segati, the “English Cheat” and the “Italian Cuckold” (1816-1817)
Venice, November 17th, 1816. To Mr. Moore: I have fallen in love, which, next to falling into the canal (which …
Category Archives: 19thC
Ugo Foscolo in Regency London (1816-1827): Holland House, His Houses and the Cenotaph
Ugo Foscolo Cenotaph in Chiswick, London Here for the first time in my life I have learnt that my name …
Frankenstein’s Laboratory in Italy: Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri, Galvanism and the Shelleys
Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri (Source: Wikipedia) Italy has great names still – Canova, Monti, Ugo Foscolo, Pindemonti, Visconti, Morelli, Cicognara, Albrizzi, …
Romantic Byron: His Last Visit to Arquà Petrarca with Teresa Guiccioli (1819)
Countess Teresa Guiccioli After his visits to Arquà in 1813 and 1818 (see my previous post here), Lord Byron returned …
In Arquà Petrarca with Foscolo, Lord Byron and the Shelleys (1817-1818)
Sarcophagus containing the remains of Francesco Petrarca in the main square of Arquà From the Euganean Hills, October 11, 1797 …
The Last Days of Shelley: A Prophecy
The Inevitable Fate There is a sense of inevitability in Shelley’s last letters, as well as an atmosphere of prophecy. …
Giuseppe Mazzini’s Houses in London
When you look up, the eye loses itself in a reddish, bell-shaped vault, which always gives me, I don’t know …
Lord Byron in the Armenian Monastery in Venice
Plaque outside the Monastery in the island of San Lazzaro in Venice “To the memory of the English Poet, LORD …
Countess Albrizzi’s Venetian Salon, with Foscolo, Canova, and Byron
Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun (1755–1842), Portrait of Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi (1792) Not very far from St. Marks’ Square, in one of …
When Italy had the “Fatal Gift of Beauty”
Between the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, an idealised idea of Italy emerged from paintings and …
Letters from the exile 