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George Gordon Byron~ known as Lord Byron
(22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824),
English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.
He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential.
He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived in the cities of Venice, Ravenna and Pisa.
In the summer of 1816 he settled at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, Switzerland,
with his personal physician, (and probable lover)
the young, brilliant and handsome John William Polidori.
There Byron befriended the poet Percy Shelley, and Shelley's future wife Mary Godwin.
He was also joined by Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, with whom he had had an affair in London.
Kept indoors at the Villa Diodati by the "incessant rain" of "that wet, ungenial summer"
the five turned to reading fantastical stories, and then devising their own tales.
Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein,
and Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron's,
to produce The Vampyre, the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre.
Often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics,
Byron was both celebrated and castigated in his life for his aristocratic excesses,
which included huge debts, numerous love affairs with both men and women,
as well as rumors of a scandalous liaison with his half-sister.
He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted in Missolonghi.
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