The Last Attachment by Iris Origo
The overlapping stories of Byron's five year love affair with a married 19 year old italina Countess and his involvement in the Italian revolutionary movement is told here in vivid and loving detail. Described by Clive Bell of the Spectator as 'fascinating...an exciting and complex story admirably told,' this edition contains over 100 letters written by Byron to Teresa providing real insight into the labyrinth of Italian social and political life of the time, including Byron's part in the Italian revolutionary moevement which led to his last adventure in Greece.
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 the Second World War, 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. She is the author of Images and Shadows; A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940; Leopardi: A Study in Solitude; and The Merchant of Prato, among others. Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a prizewinning historian and novelist. Her nonfiction book The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio was the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Costa Biography Award. She lives in London and Suffolk. Katia Lysy was born in Rome. She has worked for Italian television RAI 3, in publishing, as a journalist and as a literary translator from English and French into Italian. She now lives between Rome and Val d'Orcia, in southern Tuscany, where she assists her mother Benedetta, daughter of the writer Iris Origo, in the management and development of the family estate of La Foce, whose historic gardens are visited by Iris Origo readers from all over the world.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781885586506 |
| ISBN 10 | 1885586507 |
| Title | The Last Attachment |
| Author | Iris Origo |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Turtle Point Press |
| Year published | 2005-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
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