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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.
- 1873 (aged 72–73)
- Saint Claire's Monastery at Faenza
- 1800, Ravenna, Italy
- Lord Byron
THREE years after Byron’s death the Contessa Teresa Guiccioli, the object of the poet’s last, longest, and perhaps deepest, attachment, wrote to Charles F. Barry that his letters to her were ...
Other articles where Countess Teresa Gamba Guiccioli is discussed: Lord Byron: Life and career: 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. Byron followed her to Ravenna, and she later accompanied him back to Venice. Byron returned to…
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But Teresa now knew — or thought she knew — how completely her lover was committed. BYRON TO CONTESSA GUICCIOLI. June 16th, 1819 MY LOVE:— Let us not talk about the subject any more now. It ...
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.
THE winter months of 1820-1821 were spent by Teresa in her father’s house in Ravenna - and by Byron in the Palazzo Guiccioli, visiting her every day. It was a very different winter from the ...
Oct 18, 2018 · Teresa Gamba Guiccioli (Ravenna, 1799/1800 - Florence, 1873) was a countess from Ravenna, daughter of Count Ruggero Gamba. The latter arranged the marriage between his very young daughter, then 18 years old, and Alessandro Guiccioli, a member of the Ravenna nobility now almost 60 years old, a widower with a reputation for being libertine ...
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