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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER XXXI.
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1817-1818.
Venice.- Commencement of the Fourth Canto
of Childe Harold.-Letters to Murray and
Moore.-Lalla Rookh.-"My Boat is on the
Shore."-Visit of Lewis and Hobhouse.
Death of Madame de Stael.-The Medical
Tragedy.. Treatment of the English at
Venice. Mr. Joy's Interview with Lord
Byron. - Letters concerning the Fourth
Canto of Childe Harold — And Poetry in
general. Ariosto of the North. Cole-
ridge's Biographia Literaria. — Marlow's
Faustus.-Anecdotes.-Lady Mary Wortley
Montague. - Death of the Princess Char-
lotte.-"My dear Mr. Murray," &c. Com-
pletion of Beppo.- Rides on the Lido..
Mr. Hoppner's Reminiscences of Lord Byron.
Page 360
CHAPTER XXXII.
1818.
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1819.
La Mira and Venice. - Proposition of Count
Guiccioli. Anecdotes.-Wieland. - Alle-
gra. - Presentation of the Autobiography to
Mr. Moore. Letters to Hoppner, Murray,
and William Bankes.- Outcry against Don
Juan.-The Prophecy of Dante.-Projected
Emigration to South America. — Ferrara.
- Third Canto of Don Juan completed.
Departure of Count and Countess Guiccioli
for Ravenna
- 419
CHAPTER XXXVII.
1819-1820.
Venice.- Correspondence with Madame Guic-
cioli. Illness of the Countess. - Prepara-
tions for a Return to England. - Hasty
Departure for Ravenna.- Residence in the
Palazzo Guiccioli.-Anecdotes.-Epigrams.
-Letters to Hoppner, Moore, Murray, and
William Bankes. -State of Manners and
Morals in Italy. Letter from Dallas.
Completion of the Fourth Canto of Don
Juan, the Prophecy of Dante, and the Trans-
lations of Pulci's Morgante and Dante's
Francesca di Rimini
429
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Ferrara. Visit to the Certosa Cemetery.-
Anecdotes.- Bologna. - Illness of Madame
Guiccioli.-Arrival at Ravenna.- Letters to
Ravenna.- Pope Controversy.- Pulci.- Con-
greve. Sheridan. - Mrs. Centlivre.-Com-
mencement of Marino Faliero.-Sir Walter
Scott. Goldsmith. The
Reply to Blackwood.
Carbonari.
Italian Translation
Stael. Anecdotes of Monk Lewis.- Cap-
tain Whitby. Love of Writing. - Barry
Cornwall. The old Dramatists. - Mrs.
Centlivre and Congreve.-Letters concerning
the Representation of Marino Faliero.-Plan
of Don Juan.-Belzoni.-Letter on Bowles's
Strictures upon Pope. - George Bankes. —
Turner's Travels.- Bowles and Campbell.-
Pope's Homer - And Cowper's. — Pope's
Character of Sporus.- Portrait of Madame
Guiccioli.- Allegra.-John Scott.- Death
of Keats. - The Cenci. -Anecdotes.-Over-
throw of the Carbonari
CHAPTER XLIV.
1821.
490
CHAPTER XLVII.
Page 524
Departure from Ravenna.-Mode of Life there
sketched by Madame Guiccioli. - Rogers's
Poetical Record of his Meeting with Lord
Byron at Bologna. — Interview with Lord
Clare. Lord Byron crosses the Apennines
with Rogers.-Visit to the Florence Gallery.
Titian's Venus. The Pitti Palace.
Arrival at Pisa. - Letters to Murray and
Moore. Outcry against Cain. - First Part
of Heaven and Earth, a Mystery, completed.
-Mr. Taaffe and his Commentary on Dante.
- Communication from Mr. Shepherd.
Lord Byron's Answer. - The Lanfranchi
Palace.-Origin of the Giaour Story
CHAPTER XLVIII.
1822.
538
Pisa.Letters to Sir Walter Scott on his Re-
view of Childe Harold, and Acceptance of the
Dedication of Cain-And to Kinnaird, Mur-
ray, and Moore, on the Outcry against the
Mystery.- Death of Lady Noel.—The Tra-
gedy of Werner concluded. - Piracies of
Cain. - Decision of the Lord Chancellor.-
Proposed Meeting with Southey.— Death of
his Daughter Allegra. Affray at Pisa.
Letter to Murray concerning Allegra's Fu-
neral. Invited on Board the American
Squadron. - Translations of Childe Harold.
-Partiality of Goethe and the Germans to
Don Juan
CHAPTER XLIX.
546
Letters to Murray concerning Werner and the
Vision of Quevedo Redivivus. — Visit of
Lord Clare. Edinburgh Review on Cain.
-Transatlantic Project of Settlement.
Letter to Mr. Edward Ellice. -Sitting to
Mr. West. His Anecdotes of Lord Byron.
- Arrival of Leigh Hunt and Family.-
Death of Shelley. - Four new Cantos of Don
Juan. Habits of Life at Pisa sketched by
Madame Guiccioli. Anecdotes.
- Failure
Genoa.
Page 559
Letter to Moore concerning his Lite-
rary Connection with Leigh Hunt and the
Liberal. Hunt's Posthumous Attack on
Lord Byron.
- Friendship. Shelley.
Henry Fox. - The Blessingtons.
Count
rosity and Humanity. Embarkation for
Greece. The Voyage.- Zante. Separa- Last Illness and Death
tion of the Squadron. One of the Frigates
captured by the Turks, and taken into Patras.
CHAPTER LIV.
1824.
Page 605 No. I.-Two Epistles from the Armenian Ver-
Missolonghi. Lord Byron's Last Birth-day.
-Stanzas on completing his Thirty-sixth
Year. Letters to Hancock, Yussuf Pacha,
Barff, Mayer, and Douglas Kinnaird.
Arrival of Parry. Lord Byron takes Five
Hundred Suliotes into his Pay, and acts as
their Commander. His Humane Policy.-
Projected Attack on Lepanto. — Appointed
Commander of the Expedition. Difficulties
and Embarrassments. - Letter to Londo.
Colonel Stanhope. - Free Press. Rupture
with the Suliotes.—Lord Byron's First Ill-
ness.- Recovery. - Secures the Release of
Twenty-four Turkish Women and Children,
and sends them at his own Expense to
Prevesa
CHAPTER LV.
- 615
Missolonghi. - Lord Byron's last Letter to
Mr. Murray.-Reported Satire on Gifford.—
Lawlessness of the Suliotes.Letters to
Moore, Kennedy, Parruca, Barff, and Han-
Measures of Defence. Colonel
cock.
Stanhope and the Greek Chronicle. - Dr.
Mayer. Increasing Difficulties. — Dissen-
sions between Mavrocordato and the Eastern