Byron and Italy

Winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize 2018 Byron in Italy Venetian debauchery, Roman sight-seeing, revolution, horse-riding and swimming, sword-brandishing and pistol-shooting, the poets last attachment forms part of the fabric of Romantic mythology. Yet Byrons time in Italy was crucial to his development as a writer, to Italys sense of itself as a nation, to Europes perceptions of national identity and to the evolution of Romanticism across Europe. In this volume, Byron scholars from Britain, Europe and beyond re-assess the topic of Byron and Italy in all its richness and complexity. They consider Byrons relationship to Italian literature, people, geography, art, religion and politics, and discuss his navigations between British and Italian identities. -- .