1834 Meyer print VILLA DIODATI, LORD BYRON, SWITZERLAND
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Nice view titled Diodati, from steel engraving
with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring, approx.
image size is 9 x 14.5 cm. From Meyer's Universum,
published by Bibliographic Institute Hildburghausen Germany.
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Villa Diodati
The Villa Diodati is a manor in Cologny close to
Lake Geneva. It is most famous for having been the summer residence
of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, John Polidori and
others in 1816, where the basis for the classical horror stories
Frankenstein and The Vampyre were laid.
Originally called the Villa Belle Rive, Byron
named it the Villa Diodati after the family that owned it. The
family was distantly related to Italian translator Giovanni
Diodati, uncle of Charles Diodati, the close friend of poet John
Milton. Despite the presence of a plaque at the Villa heralding a
supposed visit of Milton in 1638, in fact the villa was not built
until 1710, long after Milton's death.
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