“’No such translation’: Il ‘Morgante’ di Byron tra Italia e Inghilterra, 1819-23”

As the most popular and influential among authors interested in Pulci in Romantic-period Britain, Lord Byron repeatedly re-evaluated the heterodox and dissident import of the Morgante. This essay argues that his translation of the poem’s first canto and its traces in Beppo and Don Juan amount to a complex interlinguistic and cross-cultural translation responding to a wide range of period-specific historical, literary-cultural, and ideological pressures and tensions.