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Contessa Teresa Guiccioli was nineteen years old -- and married to a jealous and violent husband -- when she became Byron's mistress in 1819. Incorporating 116 letters from Byron to Teresa, and some of her answers to him, Iris Origo's narrative of Byron's Italian years not only follows the lovers' five year affair but provides real insight into the labyrinth of Italian social and political life of the time, including Byron's part in the Italian revolutionary movement, which led to his life's last adventure in Greece. Teresa was his last love, but before the end came, the relations of these passionate, unstable people involved intermediaries, surveillance, look-outs, spies, and bribes. Their intimacy inspired, as could be expected, great scandal. They became political exiles, and for political reasons, in which the affair with Byron served as an excuse, Teresa's marriage was dissolved by the Pope. With a new introduction by Jonathan Galassi, the intense focus of this biography, originally published in 1949, results in drama as taut and personal as a novel's and will appeal to general readers and students of Byron alike.
| ISBN-13 | 9781436716086 |
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| ISBN-10 | 143671608X |
| Weight | 2.17 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 1.38 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $57.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 560 pages |
| Publisher | Kessinger Publishing |
| Published On | 2008-06-01 |
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