Given all the time Byron spent in Venice, and the fact that Algarotti was a Venetian, chances are he (Byron) met some older Venetians who'd known Algarotti directly, too
Yeah, I tried to find someone they had in common in Italy, but without knowing much about Byron, I failed.
he could even have seen the monument erected to him there
Though the monument is in Pisa--two buildings away from the leaning tower, according to my last foray onto Google maps (the comment where I shared all the pics of the monument a week or two ago). If I can't travel to Europe in current circumstances, I'll travel virtually!
Algarotti moved to Pisa in the last year or two of his life, for the weather, before dying of consumption.
Did Byron make it to Pisa?
Which Byron, due to his own travels decades later, was in a position to judge, as opposed to most English readers, and he thought they were not just superbly written but dead-on in what they describe.
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Date: 2020-09-10 02:17 pm (UTC)Given all the time Byron spent in Venice, and the fact that Algarotti was a Venetian, chances are he (Byron) met some older Venetians who'd known Algarotti directly, too
Yeah, I tried to find someone they had in common in Italy, but without knowing much about Byron, I failed.
he could even have seen the monument erected to him there
Though the monument is in Pisa--two buildings away from the leaning tower, according to my last foray onto Google maps (the comment where I shared all the pics of the monument a week or two ago). If I can't travel to Europe in current circumstances, I'll travel virtually!
Algarotti moved to Pisa in the last year or two of his life, for the weather, before dying of consumption.
Did Byron make it to Pisa?
Which Byron, due to his own travels decades later, was in a position to judge, as opposed to most English readers, and he thought they were not just superbly written but dead-on in what they describe.
Oh, nice!