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20 de abr. de 2024 · In 1826 he had married Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, deemed the cleverest and best looking of four daughters of another Italian teacher and man of letters, Gaetano Polidori, Tuscan by birth but Londoner by adoption.
17 de abr. de 2024 · This chapter seeks to establish the significance of the relationship between gothic literature and travel writing, through Polidori’s early vampire narrative, The Vampyre. Written during a journey across Europe and featuring one also, this narrative indicates...
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18 de abr. de 2024 · A new look at the original Romantic heartthrob, Lord Byron. On the 200th anniversary of his death, two new books explore the life and work of the poet who inspired the Byronic hero — proud,...
John William Polidori, an Italian-English physician and writer born in 1795, was a notable figure associated with the Romantic movement. As the eldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, a governess, Polidori was exposed to intellectual pursuits from a young age.
19 de abr. de 2024 · John William Polidori, an Italian-English physician and writer born in 1795, was a notable figure associated with the Romantic movement. As the eldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, a governess, Polidori was exposed to intellectual pursuits from a young age.
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17 de abr. de 2024 · Abstract. Vampires in the eighteenth century are commonly assumed to have been monstrous undead peasants who slew indiscriminately and with no intellectual rationale, and that it was only with the publication of John William Polidori’s tale “The Vampyre” (1819) that the creatures became alluringly aristocratic.
17 de abr. de 2024 · Polidori is similarly withholding of specific circumstances of the (dis)agreement in a letter to his father, Gaetano: We have parted, finding that our tempers did not agree. He proposed it, and it was settled.
