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- Creator
- Falcieri, Giovanni Battista, 1798-1874
- Call number
- Pforz Ms
- Physical description
- 1 item
- Preferred Citation
- Giovanni Battista Falcieri manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request an in-person research appointment.
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).
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319