Byron and the Discourses of History by Pomarè Carla

Author:Pomarè, Carla.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2013-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

1 Stephen Cheeke, Byron and Place. History, Translation, Nostalgia (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), p. 6.

2 Cf. also BLJ 5, p. 203: ‘There is still, in the Doge’s palace the black veil painted over Falieri’s picture & the staircase whereon he was first crowned Doge, & subsequently decapitated. – This was the thing that most struck my imagination in Venice’ (letter to Murray, 2 April 1817).

3 Dr John Moore, a Scottish physician who studied and lived in Paris, was the author of A View of Society and Manners in Italy, made up of 83 letters, the first 22 of which were devoted to Venice. As Jacques Voisine has pointed out, ‘his picture of Venice is above all remarkable for the presence of historic matter eminently suitable for poetic elaboration: the history of the conspiracies of the great doges: Dandolo, Marino Faliero, Foscari’, Jacques Voisine, ‘Voyageurs anglais à Venise au XVIIIe siècle’, in Carlo Pellegrini (ed.), Venezia nelle letterature moderne, Atti del Primo Congresso dell’Associazione Internazionale di Letteratura Comparata (Venezia, 25–30 settembre 1955) (Venezia-Roma: Istituto per la collaborazione culturale, 1961), p. 68. Byron was eventually dissatisfied with Moore’s account and turned to the other sources discussed in this chapter.

4 Gino Benzoni, ‘Dal rimpianto alla ricostruzione storiografica’, in Gino Benzoni and Gaetano Cozzi (eds), Venezia e l’Austria (Venezia: Marsilio, 1999), p. 344. See also Giovanni Scarabello, ‘Da Campoformido al Congresso di Vienna: l’identità veneta sospesa’, in Girolamo Arnaldi and Manlio Pastore Stocchi (eds), Storia della cultura veneta (6 vols, Vicenza: Neri Pozza Editore, 1976–86), vol. 6, p. 19. For a comprehensive overview of Venetian history see Giorgio Cracco and Gaetano Cozzi (eds), Storia di Venezia: dalle origini alla caduta della Serenissima (12 vols, Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, 1992–98).

5 Jane Stabler, ‘Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality’, in Drummond Bone (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Byron (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 269.

6 Joseph Forsyth, Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters During an Excursion in Italy, in the Years 1802 and 1803, Third Edition (Geneva: P.G. Ledouble, 1824), p. 451. Cf. also Lady Morgan’s account of her first entering the city: ‘As the bark however glides on, as the shore recedes, and the city of the waves, the Rome of the ocean, rises on the horizon, the spirits rally; memory, no longer deadened by external impressions, sends forth from her “secret cells” a thousand fanciful recollections; and as the spires and the cupolas of Venice come forth in the lustre of the mid-day sun, and its palaces, half-veiled in the aërial tints of distance, gradually assume their superb proportions, then the dream of many a youthful vigil is realized; and scenes long gloated over in poetic or romantic pages, gradually form and incorporate, and take their local habitation among real existences – objects of delight to the dazzled eye, as once to the bewildered imagination’, Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson), Italy (New York: C.S. Van Winkle; Philadelphia: M. Carey and Sons, 1821), p. 403. Similar is Hester Lynch Piozzi’s recollection: ‘We went down the Brenta in

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