Twenty-one manuscript letters to Lord Byron from Venetian women
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Byron boasted of having had many Italian lovers before meeting the Countess Guiccioli, his "last attachment," in April of 1818. After his death, Guiccioli saved a collection of letters to him from various Venetian woman in a folder which she marked, "Curiosità -- e lettere gal[anti] che hanno preceduto la mia cojnoscenza." For a detailed account of these letters, including conjecture as to the identity of some of the "unknown" correspondents, see Doucet Devin Fischer's "Countesses and Cobblers' Wives: Byron's Venetian Mistresses" in Shelley and his Circle vol. VII, p. 163-214. · From an unidentified woman : 8 autograph letters : ?Jan - Mar 1818 : (B'ANA 0261-0268) : in Italian; one letter bearing the signature of "La vostra ammiratrice." Published with translations in Shelley and his Circle as SC 595-602; vol. VII, p. 298-304.
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Date created: 1817