Villa Diodati
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The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with Dr. John Polidori in the summer of 1816. Percy Byss
The Villa Diodati
Portrait of Lord Byron by Thomas Phillips
Mary Shelley's manuscript draft of Frankenstein begun at the Villa Diodati, with marginal notes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Lord Byron
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George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known
Villa Diodati
…The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with Dr. John Polidori in the summer of 1816. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley's partner Mary Godwin (later Mary Shelley), and…
An engraving of Byron's father, Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron, date unknown
Catherine Gordon, Byron's mother, by Thomas Stewardson
John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare