Making extensive use of untranslated texts, Arnold Schmidt discusses the impact of Byron's life and works on the discourse of Italian nationalism between 1818 and 1948, his participation in Grand Tour and salon culture, and his influence on Italian Classicists and Romantics.

Byron's Italy Italy's Byron Crimes and Punishments Literary Circles: Politics and Romanticism Don Juan : The Narrator as Saloniere Byron's Legacy to Nationalism