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 …
Venice, November 17th, 1816. To Mr. Moore: I have fallen in love, which, next to falling into the canal (which …
This painting is the famous The Wedding Feast at Cana (1563), by Paolo Veronese. Before being plundered by Napoleon’s troops …
Ian Fleming I bathe every afternoon at the Lido. But not at the fashionable plage. I bathe at the Bagni …
Ugo Foscolo Cenotaph in Chiswick, London Here for the first time in my life I have learnt that my name …
Cell in the Pozzi, next to the Doge’s Palace De chi me fido guardami iddio De chi no me fido …
October 1797, Il faut danseur. The people of Italy depicted in their regional masks, forced to dance around the Tree …
Countess Teresa Guiccioli After his visits to Arquà in 1813 and 1818 (see my previous post here), Lord Byron returned …
Sarcophagus containing the remains of Francesco Petrarca in the main square of Arquà From the Euganean Hills, October 11, 1797 …
Plaque outside the Monastery in the island of San Lazzaro in Venice “To the memory of the English Poet, LORD …
Anonymous, “Seizing the Italian Relics”, Musée de l’Armée, Paris In 1797, on the anniversary of the 9th Thermidor 1794, the …