Me: *takes ‘The Last Attachment’ with me to read on the tube*
My brain: are you sure? Getting pretty close to Byron’s death
Me: I’ll be fiiine
Iris Origo: “he died in feverish pain, with a prolonged ‘death-bed scene’ (Che bella scena! He exclaimed with a half-smile to the weeping Tita and Fletcher)... Pierino [Pietro] was in such floods of tears that he could not stay in the room.”
Me:
My brain:
Byron: *dies*
Me: This is fine
My brain: ....
Iris Origo: “Pietro did not return to Italy... he became a Colonel in the Greek army. In 1827, having contracted typhoid, he died... and was buried in the fortress of Diamantopoulos. The fortress was destroyed and no trace remains of his grave.”
Me: ..
Iris Origo: “There is not even a portrait or a drawing of him. Nothing remains but his little book about the Greek expedition, his letters, and the tradition of his courage, his fidelity and his high hopes.”
Me: