Andrea Magnarotto manuscript material : 2 items

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Description: To Lord Byron, poet : 1 letter signed : 29 Sep 1818 : (B'ANA 0242) : from Venice : in Italian; body of the letter in a scribal hand; regarding his wife's brazen and immoral nature; imploring Byron to spare himself trouble by keeping his distance from her. Published with translation and commentary as SC 625 in Shelley and his Circle, v. VII, p. 350f.
Names: Magnarotto, Andrea (Creator); Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 (Addressee); Cogni, Margherita (Addressee)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1818-09-29 - 1818-11-17
Library locations: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle; Shelf locator: Pforz MS
Topics: Bakers -- Italy -- 19th century; Cuckolds -- Italy -- 19th century
Genres: Correspondence
Notes: Biographical/historical: Andrea Magnarotto, Venetian baker. He was the husband of Margherita Cogni, "La Fornarina," with whom Lord Byron had an affair from ca. August 1817 to sometime in 1819.; Funding: Digitized through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Physical Description: Extent: 2 items
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b18976667; MSS Unit ID: 22092; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9a90f580-d4c3-0133-ec5b-00505686d14e

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