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- Title
Byron Lived Here: The Palazzo Guiccioli.
- Authors
Tuite, Clara
- Abstract
This essay explores the Museo Byron a Palazzo Guiccioli, for a time the dwelling of George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), the self-identified cosmopolite, citizen of the world, and transnational exile. From February 1820 until October 1821, Byron lived here in this seventeenth-century residence in the heart of Ravenna in northern Italy. In late 2011, the rundown Palazzo was taken over by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna, keen to give the building a new life as a hub of cultural tourism. At the time of writing, the transformed Palazzo Guiccioli is scheduled to open its doors in Spring 2023 as a literary house museum--the Museo Byron a Palazzo Guiccioli. Byron's time at the Palazzo marked an astonishingly productive creative period and saw his participation in the Carbonari, an informal network of secret revolutionary societies. The Museo inspires a re-evaluation of the significance of politics for Byron's poetry, I suggest, by illuminating how Byron's writing intersects with his involvement in the Carbonari campaign. Celebrating Byron's Anglo-Italian cultural identity, and highlighting the keenly transnational focus of Byron's work and life, the Museo Byron also illuminates Byron's dialectical engagement with England in the heat of his engagement with Italian politics. Finally, my essay considers how the Museo Byron embodies changing house-museum practices by connecting the Palazzo to a dynamic circuit of literary tourism--then and now.
- Subjects
GORDON, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927; HERITAGE tourism
- Publication
Image & Narrative, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 3, p12
- ISSN
1780-678X
- Publication type
Article