Last Attachment - The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli

Originally published in 1949, this is the fascinating account of Byron's Italian years, his part in the Italian revolutionary movement and his five-year passionate affair with Teresa Guiccioli.

About the author

Iris Origo (1902-1988) was a British-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to the improvement of the Tuscan estate at La Foce, which she purchased with her husband in the 1920s. During WWII, she sheltered refugee children and assisted many escaped Allied prisoners of war and partisans in defiance of Italy's fascist regime and Nazi occupation forces. Pushkin Press also publishes her war diaries, War in Val D'Orcia, her memoir, Images and Shadows, as well as another of her biographies, A Study in Solitude: The Life of Leopardi - Poet, Romantic and Radical.

Summary

A detailed and engrossing account of the last - and arguably most intense - love affair of one of the greatest British poets

Foreword

A detailed and engrossing account of the last - and arguably most intense - love affair of one of the greatest British poets

Product details

• Authors: Iris Origo
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781782272670
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-267-0
• No. of pages: 576
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Collected biographies, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Italy, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions