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

Introduction - Alan Rawes and Diego Saglia1 The literature of Italy in Byron's poems of 1817-20 - Nicholas Halmi2 Byron's ethnographic eye: the poet among the Italians - Gioia Angeletti3 From Lord Nelvil to Dugald Dalgetty: Byron's Scottish identity in Italy - Jonathan Gross4 The garden of the world: Byron and the geography of Italy - Mauro Pala5 'Something I have seen or think it possible to see': Byron and Italian art in Ravenna - Jane Stabler6 'Something sensible to grasp at': Byron and Italian Catholicism - Bernard Beatty7 The politics of the unities: tragedy and the Risorgimento in Byron and Manzoni - Arnold Anthony Schmidt8 Parisina, Mazeppa and Anglo-Italian displacement - Peter W. Graham9 This 'still exhaustless mine': De Staël, Goethe and Byron's Roman lyricism - Alan Rawes10 Playing with history: Byron's Italian dramas - Mirka Horová11 'Where shall I turn me?' Italy and irony in Beppo and Don Juan - Diego SagliaIndex