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Teresa parades her "cavalier servente" proudly.

Count Guiccioli--for unknown reasons--offers to rent Byron the unused upper floor of the spacious Pallazzo Osio; Byron eventually agrees.

In it, he lauds Alexander Pope and John Dryden over the Lake Poets.

He also refers to John Keats as "a tadpole of the Lakes," a comment he regrets when he learns of Keats's death.

He completes a ballad on Hobhouse's imprisonment and sends it to him via Murray.

Byron's ballad is published in the popular press before Hobhouse even sees it, and it wounds Hobhouse who writes Byron of his displeasure.

Aristocrats like Teresa's father, Count Ruggero Gamba, increasingly oppose the Austrian oligarchy, while the ecclesiastical party actively supports the puppet-government.

The Count's violent behavior frightens Teresa; the next morning she calls her father and brothers to the Pallazzo and asks to return to their protection

Teresa receives an allowance of 100 scudi a month from her husband (the English equivalent of 1000 a year).

The revolt temporarily gains Naples a constitution against the Austrian puppet-monarch, Ferdinand I.

Byron retains his place in the Palazzo Guiccioli

Frustrated with the poetic efforts of his contemporaries, Byron asks Murray to type-set his 1811 Hints from Horace.

Frustrated with Claire Claremont's continued correspondence, Byron writes Percy Shelley that he will no longer communicate with Claire directly.

Hobhouse urges Byron to returnto England, but Byron decides to stay in Italy and gather evidence against the Italian witnesses brough by the English government to testify against the Queen.

Austria, then, in crushing the Neapolitan revolutionaries is simply protecting her Italian interests.

Byron fears that officials will act against him, by placing Teresa in a convent.

Moore, living in Paris to avoid creditors, circulates the Memoirs freely.

Byron sends Douglas Kinnaird the fifth canto of Don Juan.

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Secretary Alborghetti of the Cardinal's office acts as Byron's intermediary: he negotiates that Tita should not be transported

In it, Lockhart advises Byron to

"Stick to Don Juan: it is the only sincere thing you have ever written. . . . Don Juan. . [is] out of all sight the best of your works; it is by far the most spirited, the most straight-forward, the most interesting, and the most poetical; and every body thinks as I do of it, although they have not the heart to say so." (911)

Teresa stays in Ravenna to be near Byron, thus violating the requirements of her separation. The Gambas ultimately resettle in Florence.

Byron urges her to continue on her journey in order to avoid the intervention of the papal authorities.

Byron reveals the rumors Hoppner has been spreading about Shelley's relationship with Claire.

Shelley encourages Byron to move to Pisa.

Within a day or two, Shelley finds Byron a residence at the Casa Lanfranchi--a sixteenth century palace on the Lungarno--at a price of 400 crowns a year.

Shelley also invites Leigh Hunt to come to Italy and co-edit a literary periodical.

Byron writes Kinnaird, designating the following dedications: The Two Foscari to Sir Walter Scott, Sardanapalus to Goethe, and Marino Faliero to Kinnaird.

The moving wagons Byron had hired arrive from Pisa.

Byron's circle eventually extends to include John Taaffe, Jr., whose "Commentary on Dante" Byron recommends to Murray for publication.

Byron also finds Maria, a local peasant, attractive, and his attentions toward her attract Teresa's jealousy.

Byron has weekly dinners for the men in the group.

At the invitation of Shelley, Prince Argiropoli, cousin to Mavrocordatos, meets with Byron and renews his enthusiasm for the cause of Greek Independence.

Byron remains under constant police surveillance.

Byron offers them the ground floor of the Casa Lanfranchi and even purchases furniture for their use. Hunt will later complain about the plainness of the furniture.