Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Ugo Foscolo
Standard Name: Foscolo, Ugo
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Mary Walker | Her illegitimate grand-daughter Mary was taken back after LMW
's death by her father, Ugo Foscolo
, who had settled in London, where he had arrived on 11 September 1816. Mary brought him the... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Charlotte Bury | During her first marriage Lady Charlotte frequently entertained the literary celebrities of her day. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. |
Friends, Associates | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | BBBD
was a friend, from her youth onwards, of William Gilpin
and his brother Sawrey Gilpin
, a painter of animals; they each assumed a paternal relationship with her. Ugo Foscolo
was another significant literary... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Walker | Here they met the Italian romantic poet Ugo Foscolo
, who had come to France to join Napoleon
's army and had been put in charge of the detained Britons. Saint, Andrew. “Diary: Foscolo’s Grave”. London Review of Books, 20 Sept. 2007, pp. 34-5. 34 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan
, to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped... |
Instructor | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | BBBD
and her sisters enjoyed a good deal of freedom during their childhood. They kept animals of all kinds, and Barbarina once set out to experience the mysterious masculine pleasure of getting drunk, which it... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Caroline Lamb | In this and her final novel she followed the advice of Ugo Foscolo
, though she found it went against her grain, to choose a simple plot and build it around a single character. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 225 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catherine Fanshawe | Late at night after a party given by poet and classicist William Sotheby
, CF
composed a verse trilingual harangue entitled Liberty, written as if spoken by the Italian poet Ugo Foscolo
. Fanshawe, Catherine. Memorials of Miss Catherine Maria Fanshawe. Editor Harness, William, Privately printed by Vacher and Sons, 1865. 54-5 |
Publishing | Maria Callcott | |
Textual Features | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | BBBD
celebrated one of her most important literary relationships with a friendship poem entitled To Ugo Foscolo
, with a Snuff-box. Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols. 2: 269 |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | |
Textual Production | Felicia Hemans | Gary Kelly
speculates that Felicia Browne may have been the translator (signing F. B.) of Italian patriot and political exile Ugo Foscolo
's autobiographical novel Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis in 1812. Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, 2002, pp. 12 - 89; various pages. 21 A... |
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Texts
Foscolo, Ugo. Ultime Lettere Di Japoco Ortis. Translator Radcliff-Umstead, Douglas, University of North Carolina Press, 1970.