How did Italy Italianise Byron? And how did Byron Byronise Italy? These are the key questions that the volume sets out to answer.

Alan Rawes is Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester
Diego Saglia is Professor of English Literature at the University of Parma

Introduction - Alan Rawes and Diego Saglia
1 The literature of Italy in Byron's poems of 1817-20 - Nicholas Halmi
2 Byron's ethnographic eye: the poet among the Italians - Gioia Angeletti
3 From Lord Nelvil to Dugald Dalgetty: Byron's Scottish identity in Italy - Jonathan Gross
4 The garden of the world: Byron and the geography of Italy - Mauro Pala
5 'Something I have seen or think it possible to see': Byron and Italian art in Ravenna - Jane Stabler
6 'Something sensible to grasp at': Byron and Italian Catholicism - Bernard Beatty
7 The politics of the unities: tragedy and the Risorgimento in Byron and Manzoni - Arnold Anthony Schmidt
8 Parisina, Mazeppa and Anglo-Italian displacement - Peter W. Graham
9 This 'still exhaustless mine': De Staël, Goethe and Byron's Roman lyricism - Alan Rawes
10 Playing with history: Byron's Italian dramas - Mirka Horová
11 'Where shall I turn me?' Italy and irony in Beppo and Don Juan - Diego Saglia
Index