“Lord Byron was honoured not only in England. He was honoured, and maybe more so, also in his second homeland, Greece.” It’s ...

If you’re fed up with the crowds in Venice, head to Ravenna, with its dazzling mosaics and evocative museum dedicated to the ...

Lord Byron may be regarded as one of England’s ... His heart may have (literally) stayed in Greece, but his body rests in the churchyard near his ancestral home Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire.

The institution in Ravenna houses objects kept by Countess Teresa Gamba Guicciolo, the noblewoman who had a relationship with ...

Wilson recalls how Byron opposed Lord Elgin's removal of the marbles from the Parthenon and felt disgust seeing Elgin and others leave Greece with ships full of valuable remnants. He writes that ...

It adjoins the memorials to Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll and D.H. Lawrence. The white marble stone is inlaid with gold Sienna marble lettering and reads: LORD BYRON Died 19 April 1824 aged 36 at ...

Lord Byron was a popular Romantic figure in Victorian ... He died from a fever in 1824 in Missolonghi, in modern day Greece, after joining Greek insurgents the year prior to fight a war of ...