Word: polidori
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...creatures he imagines artists to be. No distance, no irony, no coherence, no prisoners. And no surprise that Russell now turns to Gothic, Stephen Volk's script about the famous night in 1816 that Byron (Gabriel Byrne) spent with his mistress Claire Clairmont (Myriam Cyr), his lover John William Polidori (Timothy Spall), his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley (Julian Sands) and Shelley's wife-to-be Mary Godwin (Natasha Richardson). From that spectral evening emerged Mary's idea for her novel Frankenstein...
...most clangorous of all these bells once sounded from the white Church of the Patron Saints of Italy, where cheerful, cherubic, chain-smoking Don Cesare Polidori tends his flock in a section known for toughness even in tough Trastevere. Hard by the famous Thieves' Market is a district whose bitter poverty made it a hiving hotspot for trouble-brewing Communists, Don Cesare's bells had rung through every feast in the 14 years of his ministry. More important, perhaps, they rang when there was no feasting, for Don Cesare, troubled by the fact that more than half...
...Belgian inn, and, '"as soon as he reached his room . . . fell like a thunderbolt upon the chambermaid." It was George Gordon Lord Byron, "for whom foreign travel had a psychological significance which his traveling compan ions could not long ignore." His com panions: Dr. John ("Polly dolly") Polidori; his "querulous" valet, Fletcher; his sparring partner. Next afternoon they all set off for Switzerland via the year-old battlefield of Waterloo where Byron, an insatiable souvenir hunter, bought some scraps of old iron to send home...