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Byron and Italy
EDITED BY
ALAN RAWES AND DIEGO SAGLIA
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Contents
Notes on contributors page vii
Abbreviations x
Byron in Italy: a chronology xi
Introduction: ‘Un paese tutto poetico’ – Byron in Italy,
Italy in Byron 1
ALAN RAWES AND DIEGO SAGLIA
1 The literature of Italy in Byron’s poems of 1817– 20 23
NICHOLAS HALMI
2 Byron’s ethnographic eye: the poet among the Italians 44
GIOIA ANGELETTI
3 From Lord Nelvil to Dugald Dalgetty: Byron’s Scottish
identity in Italy 61
JONATHAN GROSS
4 The garden of the world: Byron and the geography
of Italy 77
MAURO PALA
5 ‘Something I have seen or think it possible to
see’: Byron and Italian art in Ravenna 94
JANE STABLER
6 ‘Something sensible to grasp at’: Byron and Italian
Catholicism 112
BERNARD BEATTY
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7 The politics of the unities: tragedy and the
Risorgimento in Byron and Manzoni 130
ARNOLD ANTHONY SCHMIDT
8 Parisina, Mazeppa and Anglo- Italian displacement 149
PETER W. GRAHAM
9 This ‘still exhaustless mine’: de Staël, Goethe and
Byron’s Roman lyricism 166
ALAN RAWES
10 Playing with history: Byron’s Italian dramas 188
MIRKA HOROVÁ
11 ‘Where shall I turn me?’: Italy and irony in Beppo and
Don Juan 208
DIEGO SAGLIA
Select bibliography 227
Index 241
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Contributors
Gioia Angeletti is Associate Professor of English Literature at the
University of Parma. Her research focuses mainly on late-e ighteenth-
and nineteenth-c entury English and Scottish poetry and theatre and,
more recently, contemporary Scottish women playwrights. She is the
author of Eccentric Scotland: Three Victorian Poets (2004) and Lord
Byron and Discourses of Otherness: Scotland, Italy, and Femininity (2012),
and is the editor of Emancipation, Liberation, and Freedom: Romantic
Drama and Theatre in Britain, 1760–1 830 (2010). She is working
on a monograph on eighteenth- and nineteenth- century diasporic
Scottish writers.
Bernard Beatty is Senior Fellow in the School of English at the
University of Liverpool and Associate Fellow in the School of
Divinity at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of two
books and has edited three collections of essays on Byron. He has
written on Romanticism, the Bible, many major authors and aspects
of literary theory. He was editor of The Byron Journal from 1986 to
2004. Recent publications have been about Shelley and the theatre;
Byron, Pope and Newman; Browning and Newman; Romantic deca-
dence; and Byron’s temperament. Pending ones are on Byron and
Pope, and Byron’s ‘dramatic monologues’.
Peter W. Graham is Professor of English at Virginia Tech and
Director of International Relations for the Messolonghi Byron
Research Center. His publications on Byron and his circle include
Byron’s Bulldog: The Letters of John Cam Hobhouse to Lord Byron (1984),
Don Juan and Regency England (1990) and various essays.
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Jonathan Gross is Professor of English at DePaul University. He is
the author of Byron: The Erotic Liberal (2000) and the editor of Byron’s
‘Corbeau Blanc’: The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne (1997).
Nicholas Halmi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature
at the University of Oxford and Margaret Candfield Fellow of
University College, Oxford. He is the author of The Genealogy of the
Romantic Symbol (2007) and the editor, most recently, of the Norton
Critical Edition of Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose (2013). In 2015 he
was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship to write
a book on aesthetic historicism in the Romantic period.
Mirka Horová teaches English literature in the Department of
Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University in
Prague. With her research focus predominantly on Byron, her aca-
demic work includes British Romanticism in general, contemporary
Romantic legacies and Scandinavian literature. Her publications
on Byron include special issues of The Byron Journal (2015) and
Litteraria Pragensia (2013), and chapters in numerous books, most
recently in R. Beaton and C. Kenyon Jones (eds.), Byron: The Politics
of Poetry and the Poetry of Politics (2016). She is currently working on
a monograph on Byron’s drama and a co- edited collection of essays
in honour of Peter Cochran.
Mauro Pala is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University
of Cagliari. He has been a Fulbright distinguished lecturer at the
University of Notre Dame, a visiting professor at the University of
Limoges and a visiting scholar at Trinity College Dublin. Since 2011
he has also been a lecturer at the Writing the Mediterranean Summer
School at the University of Malta. He has published extensively on
European Romanticism, critical theory and Postcolonial Studies. He
is a member of the scientific board of the Palermo European PhD
programme in Cultural Studies and, since 2014, has sat on the ruling
Board of COMPALIT, Italy’s leading association for Comparative
Literature Studies. He is currently working on a book on forms of
subalternity in Joyce.
Alan Rawes teaches at the University of Manchester. His pub-
lications include Byron’s Poetic Experimentation (2000), English
Romanticism and the Celtic World (co- ed., 2003), Romantic Biography
(co- ed., 2003), Romanticism and Form (ed., 2007), Reading, Writing
