Two young people - married unhappily to contrary spouses - but now desperately in love with each other, living in a time when wedlock was a padlock for life with no opening key.
For Lord Byron, Teresa Guiccioli is not his only love; he also loves Italy, and cares for the Italian people who are now under the crushing rule of Austria. Can he fight the Austrians with scathing poetry, or join the secret Italian organisation of the 'Carbonari' who are preparing to take back their country with war?
Yet it is while he is in Italy that his own nation of Britain makes a huge political request of him - insisting he is the only man who can do it - and so once again he dons the red military uniform of a commissioned British officer and leaves Italy for Greece, knowing that the hardest stage of his journey still stretches ahead.
Will Teresa wait for him?
"If I am a poet, Greece made me one. It was there I wrote my first successful poem, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage."
"There was a helplessness about Byron, a sort of abandonment of himself to his "destiny" as he called it. He believed in Fate, and when Fate spoke to him clearly, he always answered the call." - - - Quinnell.
Genre: Historical
For Lord Byron, Teresa Guiccioli is not his only love; he also loves Italy, and cares for the Italian people who are now under the crushing rule of Austria. Can he fight the Austrians with scathing poetry, or join the secret Italian organisation of the 'Carbonari' who are preparing to take back their country with war?
Yet it is while he is in Italy that his own nation of Britain makes a huge political request of him - insisting he is the only man who can do it - and so once again he dons the red military uniform of a commissioned British officer and leaves Italy for Greece, knowing that the hardest stage of his journey still stretches ahead.
Will Teresa wait for him?
"If I am a poet, Greece made me one. It was there I wrote my first successful poem, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage."
"There was a helplessness about Byron, a sort of abandonment of himself to his "destiny" as he called it. He believed in Fate, and when Fate spoke to him clearly, he always answered the call." - - - Quinnell.
Genre: Historical
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