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Creator
Magnarotto, Andrea
Call number
Pforz MS
Preferred Citation
Andrea Magnarotto manuscript material : 2 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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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.

Biographical/historical information

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.

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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.|||To Margherita Cogni, his wife : 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Nov 1818 : (B'ANA 0243) : in Italian; saying he received the order to get the keys to the house and the bakery; asking her to supply him with some flour to help re-open the shop. Published with translation and commentary as SC 628 in Shelley and his Circle v. VII, p. 355f.

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319

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