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...left Byron, and the word went around that she had discovered a love affair between her husband and his half-sister. A storm of public opinion drove Byron out of England, never to return. In Italy, he settled down as the lover of a draper's wife, Marianna Segati, wrote much verse (including most of his masterpiece, Don Juan) and many disgusted letters back to England about "the destruction with which my moral Clytemnestra hewed me down." But women he could not escape. They choked his mornings with billets-doux and crawled in his windows at night. He sighed...
...Byron was soon writing from Venice, "my health growing better, and my spirits not worse, the 'besoin d'aimer' came back upon my heart . . . and, after all, there is nothing like it." This time the besoin d'aimer took the form of Marianna Segati, wife of Byron's landlord, who ran a draper's shop at the sign of Il Corno (the horn), soon changed by his apprentices into II Corno Inglese (horns by Byron). Marianna has been described as a "demon of avarice and libidinousness." But Byron found that her hair...
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