Volume VIII opens with Byron in Ravenna, in 1821. His passion for the Countess Guiccioli is subsiding into playful fondness, and he confesses to his sister Augusta that he is not "so furiously in love as at first." Italy, meanwhile, is afire with the revolutionary activities of the Carbornari, which Byron sees as "the very poetry of politics."
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Volume VIII opens with Byron in Ravenna, in 1821. His passion for the Countess Guiccioli is subsiding into playful fondness, and he confesses to his sister Augusta that he is not "so furiously in love as at first." Italy, meanwhile, is afire with the revolutionary activities of the Carbornari, which Byron sees as "the very poetry of politics."
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Fair. Hardcover without dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright with tanning edges, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
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Fine in VG+ jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Rust cloth, lettered in gold foil. Former owner's signature inked inside front cover, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket shows 1/2" closed tear with associated crease along top front edge, slightly sunned spine panel. 271 pp.
