No Moon at Midnight: 7 (Lord Byron)

From Venice to Ravenna and on to Pisa and Genoa Lord Byrons journey through life and Italy continues. But now he is a man sincerely in love with only one woman living in a quasi-domesticated happiness with her; until his own nation of Britain makes a political request of him - insisting he is the only man who can do it - and so once again he courageously dons the red military uniform of a commissioned British officer and leaves Italy - knowing the hardest stage of his journey still stretched ahead.There was a helplessness about Byron a sort of abandonment of himself to his destiny as he called it. He believed in fate. And when fate spoke to him clearly he always answered the call.-------- Quinnell