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Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli (1800–1873) was the married lover of Lord Byron while he was living in Ravenna and writing the first five cantos of Don Juan. She wrote the biographical account Lord Byron's Life in Italy. On 19 January 1818, Teresa married an elderly diplomat, Count Alessandro Guiccioli, who was 50 years her senior.
At the time of her meeting with the poet, Teresa was eighteen, and had been married for a little more than a year to Conte Alessandro Guiccioli, an eccentric and avaricious old patrician of...
Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli (1800 – 1873) was the married lover of Lord Byron while he was living in Ravenna and writing the first five cantos of Don Juan. She wrote the biographical account Lord Byron's Life in Italy.
But a chance meeting with Countess Teresa Gamba Guiccioli, who was only 19 years old and married to a man nearly three times her age, reenergized Byron and changed the course of his life.
ITALY in the spring of 1819 was the setting of what many have regarded as Byron’s most important love. At a party in Venice in April, Byron was introduced to Countess Teresa Guiccioli.
Byron’s letters to Countess Guiccioli, held in private by her family for seventy-five rears, have now been released. Sympathetically edited by MARCHESA IRIS ORIGO, the letters and the...
Sep 10, 2021 · Teresa, Countess Guiccioli, Italian noblewoman and writer. She was the last of Lord Byron's Italian mistresses. Scope and arrangement. The Teresa Guiccioli manuscript material is arranged in four series: Series I. Writings. Series II. Correspondence. Series III. Correspondence by others in Guiccioli's hand. Series IV.
