The last attachment

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When The Last Attachment was first published the Observer hailed it as 'a most important book. We at last obtain real insight into the relations between Byron and Teresa Guiccioli', and the Spectator : 'I could not have believed that so much material of value remained unpublished.' Iris Origó presents a new portrait of Byron-Byron shown in an Italian setting and as seen through contemporary Italian eyes, getting deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of Italian social and political life, only to find himself alone again at last, in the centre of the maze. What the author succeeds brilliantly in doing is to give the first full account of'the last attachment'-Byron's intense love affair with the Contessa Guiccioli. Iris Origó was the first biographer to have access to all Teresa Guiccioli's papers. They include one hundred and sixty of Byron's love-letters to her, and somé of her answers, together with her hitherto unpublished account of his life in Italy. There are alsó letters from... Tovább

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When The Last Attachment was first published the Observer hailed it as 'a most important book. We at last obtain real insight into the relations between Byron and Teresa Guiccioli', and the Spectator : 'I could not have believed that so much material of value remained unpublished.' Iris Origó presents a new portrait of Byron-Byron shown in an Italian setting and as seen through contemporary Italian eyes, getting deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of Italian social and political life, only to find himself alone again at last, in the centre of the maze. What the author succeeds brilliantly in doing is to give the first full account of'the last attachment'-Byron's intense love affair with the Contessa Guiccioli. Iris Origó was the first biographer to have access to all Teresa Guiccioli's papers. They include one hundred and sixty of Byron's love-letters to her, and somé of her answers, together with her hitherto unpublished account of his life in Italy. There are alsó letters from Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lady Blessington, Lamartine and others. New facts from contemporary Italian diaries and chronicles, and from the archives of the Italian and Austrian police, are incorporated in the narrative. The Last Attachment is not only a contribution of outstanding importance to the biographical material of Byron, and to life in early nineteenth century Italy, but is alsó in its own right a work of literature in which Iris Origo's gifts of creative scholarship are fully displayed. Vissza