Artifacts from Romantic poet Byron’s time in Italy to go on display

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Artifacts from Romantic poet Byron’s time in Italy to go on display

The NewsA museum in Italy will showcase mementos of British poet Lord Byron’s affair with a married Italian noblewoman — including peeled fragments of his sunburnt skin that she lovingly preserved. Byron, one of the great Romantic poets and a serial philanderer, followed Countess Teresa Gamba Guicciolo to the northern city of Ravenna in 1819, residing in the home she shared with her husband, along with his pet monkeys and eagle. The abandoned pa…