Byron

“In 1822, Lord George Byron, the most famous of the poets of modern England, lived in Montenero for six weeks. He lived in the Dupouy villa now De Paoli, and according to what they say, in the room in the corner between the main front and the western side of the villa. At the end of this room is a small alcove where the bed occupied by Byron was. (…) Count Ruggero Gamba had come to Montenero with his son Pietro and daughter Teresa married to Count Guiccioli, with a retinue of…