Byron in Italy A biographical review of Lord Byron's period spent in Italy, discusses his relationships and works of the time.
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On the 25th of April, 1816, a small packet boat drifted silently away from Dover's cliffs - dusky in the dim light - carrying England's most celebrated and notorious Romantic poet, Lord George Gordon Byron. His mood was sullen: having suffered under much derision and scandalous rumours, having failed in his marriage to Annabella Millbanke, having risen suddenly to fame only to become ostracised from gentile society, he was placing himself in voluntary exile from his
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