Found 1 collection related to Falcieri, Giovanni Battista, 1798-1874

Giovanni Battista "Tita" Falcieri, Italian-born servant of Lord Byron. He was later Isaac D'Israeli's butler, then chief messenger at the India Office. · To his parents : 1 letter (transcript) : 19 Mar 1824 : (B'ANA 0629) : announcing Byron's death. The copy is in a contemporary, possibly English hand, and on the verso is written, "copy letter from venetian sert. who was with Ld. Byron in Greece when he died." Along with a contemporary manuscript translation signed M. E. L., and a clipping of literary scholar Richard Edgcumbe's notice of Falcieri in the Times (4 Jan 1875). less