The Missolonghi Manuscript (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederic Prokosch
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Plot: Biographical
- Time of Work: 1824, with flashbacks focusing on the period from 1809 to 1824
- Setting: Greece, England, Switzerland, and Italy
- Principal Characters: George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Teresa Guiccioli
- Genres: Long fiction, Biographical fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Nineteenth century, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Italy or Italians, Greece or Greek people, Switzerland or Swiss people
- Locales: England, Italy, Greece, Switzerland
The Novel
The Missolonghi Manuscript is a novel about George Gordon, Lord Byron, based on the convenient device of recently discovered (but imaginary) diaries written by the poet. The narrative is prefaced by a fictitious meeting at a party in Italy of a T. H. Applebee from Bryn Mawr College with the American-born Marchesa del Rosso. Applebee learns from the marchesa that she has a manuscript of three notebooks written by Byron in Missolonghi, Greece, between January, 1824, and his death there three months later. Two years pass, and the marchesa dies, but Applebee is...
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