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Showing posts with label Byron. Show all posts

10 April 2018

Giovanni Aldini - physicist

Professor thought to have given Mary Shelley the idea for Frankenstein Giovanni Aldini picked up the mantle of his uncle, Luigi Galvan...

23 October 2017

Francesco Foscari – Doge of Venice

Ignominious ending to a long and glorious reign Lazzaro Bastiani's profile portrait of the 65th Doge of Venice, Francesco Fosca...

8 July 2016

Death of the poet Shelley

Dramatic storm took the life of young literary talent Portrait of Shelley by Amelia Curran, painted in about 1819 English poet Percy...

23 February 2016

John Keats – poet

Writer spent his final days in the Eternal City The portrait of Keats by William Hilton, which is housed in the National Portrait Gall...

10 November 2015

Lord Byron in Venice

Romantic English poet finds renewed inspiration Aristocratic English poet Lord Byron and his friend, John Cam Hobhouse, arrived in Ven...

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