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Design of visiting Sicily.
-
Party Politics.
the Bride of Abydos.
Persian Tales.
Publication of
Mr. Gally Knight's
· Letters to Mr. Gifford and
Mr. Murray. Mr. Canning. Thomas
Ashe. Mr. Merivale's Roncesvaux.
trimonial Project
CHAPTER XX.
1814.
Gifford, thanking him for Advice on Religi- Journal.- The Weeping Stanzas.
ous Topics. Madame de Stael. — Projected
Anecdotes. — Addi-
-Cooke, the Actor.
Abyssinia.
Lucien
Letter from
Ma
- 208
Sheridan.
Congreve.
Quarrels of
Buona-
226
Publication of the Corsair.- Presentation of
the Copyright. - Dedication to Mr. Moore.
Letters to Mr. Murray. - Newstead.
Six-and-twenty! The Prince Regent.
Proposed Reconciliation with Lord Carlisle.-
Letters to Mr. Moore. — Windsor Poetics.-
Anti- Byron. Farewell to Poetry.- Ode to
Napoleon. Singular Determination
235
CHAPTER XXXI.
1817-1818.
Venice.- Commencement of the Fourth Canto
of Childe Harold. -Letters to Murray and
Moore.-Lalla Rookh.-"My Boat is on the
Shore."-Visit of Lewis and Hobhouse.
Death of Madame de Stael.—The Medical
Tragedy. Treatment of the English at
Venice. Mr. Joy's Interview with Lord
Byron. Letters concerning the Fourth
Canto of Childe Harold And Poetry in
general. Ariosto of the North. Cole-
ridge's Biographia Literaria. Marlow's
Faustus.-Anecdotes.-Lady Mary Wortley
Montague. - Death of the Princess Char-
lotte.-"My dear Mr. Murray," &c. - Com-
pletion of Beppo. Rides on the Lido..
Mr. Hoppner's Reminiscences of Lord Byron.
Page 360
CHAPTER XXXII.
1818.
La Mira and Venice. - Proposition of Count
Guiccioli. Anecdotes. - Wieland. — Alle-
Presentation of the Autobiography to
Mr. Moore.Letters to Hoppner, Murray,
and William Bankes.- Outcry against Don
Juan.-The Prophecy of Dante.-Projected
Emigration to South America. — Ferrara.
- Third Canto of Don Juan completed. —
Departure of Count and Countess Guiccioli
for Ravenna
- 419
CHAPTER XXXVII.
1819-1820.
Venice.-Correspondence with Madame Guic-
cioli.Illness of the Countess. Prepara-
tions for a Return to England. - Hasty
Departure for Ravenna.- Residence in the
Palazzo Guiccioli.-Anecdotes.- Epigrams.
-Letters to Hoppner, Moore, Murray, and
William Bankes. State of Manners and
Morals in Italy. - Letter from Dallas. -
Completion of the Fourth Canto of Don
Juan, the Prophecy of Dante, and the Trans-
lations of Pulci's Morgante and Dante's
Francesca di Rimini
429
CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
1820.
Ravenna.- Pope Controversy.- Pulci.- Con-
greve. Sheridan. - Mrs. Centlivre.- Com-
mencement of Marino Faliero.- Sir Walter
Scott. Goldsmith. - The Carbonari.
Reply to Black wood. Italian Translation
CHAPTER XLIII.
1821.
Letter to Moore concerning the Memoir
And the projected Journal. - Madame de
Stael. Anecdotes of Monk Lewis.- Cap-
tain Whitby. Love of Writing. — Barry
Cornwall. The old Dramatists. - Mrs.
Centlivre and Congreve.-Letters concerning
the Representation of Marino Faliero.-Plan
of Don Juan.-Belzoni.-Letter on Bowles's
Strictures upon Pope. - George Bankes.
Turner's Travels.- Bowles and Campbell.—
Pope's Homer And Cowper's. — Pope's
Character of Sporus.- Portrait of Madame
Guiccioli.- Allegra.- John Scott.- Death
of Keats. The Cenci. -Anecdotes-Over-
throw of the Carbonari
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CHAPTER XLIV.
490
Second Letter to Murray on Bowles's Stric-
tures upon Pope.- John Scott.-Hypochon-
driacism.-Eloisa and Abelard.-Anonymous
Communications. - Bowles's Missionary.
The Cockney School. Letters to Hoppner
on Allegra's Education - And to Murray on
the Representation of Marino Faliero 504
CHAPTER XLV.
Ravenna. Sardanapalus completed.-Madame
Benzoni. Anecdotes. — Epigram.— Fame.
- Tributes to Lord Byron's Genius.— Visit
of Mr. Coolidge. - Pictures and Busts.
Americans. Don Juan discontinued at the
Desire of Madame Guiccioli. Shakspeare.
- Severity of the Italian Government.
The Gambas and Madame Guiccioli com-
pelled to leave Ravenna.- Letters to Hopp-
ner, Moore, and Murray.-Shelley's Account
of his Visit to Lord Byron.-Progress of the
Autobiography
512
CHAPTER XLVI.
Ravenna.- Letters to Murray and Moore.-
Alleged Plagiarisms. — Adventures of a
Young Andalusian Nobleman. - Drama of
Cain completed.—The Irish Avatar. - Pre-
parations for leaving Ravenna. - Letters to
Murray and Moore concerning the Auto-
biography. - Letter to Lady Byron. - The
Vision of Judgment
Page 524
CHAPTER XLVII.
Departure from Ravenna.-Mode of Life there
sketched by Madame Guiccioli. — Rogers's
Poetical Record of his Meeting with Lord
Byron at Bologna. — Interview with Lord
Clare. -Lord Byron crosses the Apennines
with Rogers.-Visit to the Florence Gallery.
Titian's Venus. The Pitti Palace.
Arrival at Pisa. Letters to Murray and
Moore. Outcry against Cain. - First Part
of Heaven and Earth, a Mystery, completed.
-Mr. Taaffe and his Commentary on Dante.
Communication from Mr. Shepherd.
Lord Byron's Answer. The Lanfranchi
Palace. Origin of the Giaour Story
CHAPTER XLVIII.
1822.
· 538
Pisa.-Letters to Sir Walter Scott on his Re-
view of Childe Harold, and Acceptance of the
Dedication of Cain-And to Kinnaird, Mur-
ray, and Moore, on the Outcry against the
Mystery.- Death of Lady Noel.-The Tra-
gedy of Werner concluded. - Piracies of
Cain. - Decision of the Lord Chancellor. —
Proposed Meeting with Southey. — Death of
his Daughter Allegra.- Affray at Pisa. -
Letter to Murray concerning Allegra's Fu-
neral. - Invited on Board the American
Squadron. Translations of Childe Harold.
- Partiality of Goethe and the Germans to
Don Juan
CHAPTER XLIX.
546
Acts of Generosity and
Letter from Marco Botzari. -
His Death. - State of Parties in Greece. -
Difficulties of Lord Byron's Position.
sidence at Mataxata.- Mode of Life. - Con-
versations on Religion with Kennedy.
Letters to Madame Guiccioli, Bowring, the
Greek Government, Prince Mavrocordato,
and Douglas Kinnaird
594