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BSL - Venetian Newspaper 1818
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1818 - VALENTINE'S DAY NEWSPAPER FROM VENICE |
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A complete Worldwide Round-up of International News with bylines from Frankfurt, Stockholm, Moscow, London, Brussels, Madrid and Paris. There is plenty of local news in the society and arts section as well as shipping information, current exchange rates and public notices. Document is on one large folio page folded once to make four pages - all with printing on them. Front page displays the date Saturday 14 February 1818 and the black handstamp imprint (upper right) of the "3 CEN" newspaper stamp tax. A very nice remembrance of Valentine's Day when Byron and Shelley waxed romantic among the canals of Venice and the world was abuzz with news from a newly freed Europe. Heavy fold across middle (which could be pressed out) but all pages are intact with natural rough edges on batonne laid unwatermarked paper. |
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In 1818 Europe was coming to grips with a Post war - Post Napoleonic Era and Venice was a center of culture and extravagance. Donizetti performed his first Opera while Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley were also present, presiding over a romantic revitalized Europe. Byron was in Venice writing the final touches of Childe Harold and for recreation - swimming in the Grand Canal at night holding a torch so that gondoliers would not run him over. Shelley visited Byron at the Mocenigo Palace in 1818 on a matter concerning Byron's illegitimate daughter Allegra and lover Claire Clairmont, whom Shelley brought with him from Livorno. They reached Venice by gondola from Padua, having the fortune to be rowed by a gondolier who had been in Byron's employ. It was also here that Byron wrote his "Ode to Venice".
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