Byron and Italy

<p><b>Winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize 2018</b><br><br>Byron in Italy - Venetian debauchery Roman sight-seeing revolution horse-riding and swimming sword-brandishing and pistol-shooting the poet's 'last attachment' - forms part of the fabric of Romantic mythology. Yet Byron's time in Italy was crucial to his development as a writer to Italy's sense of itself as a nation to Europe's 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 Byron's relationship to Italian literature people geography art religion and politics and discuss his navigations between British and Italian identities.</p>