NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Taaffe, John, 1787-1862 LBT ID: JoTaaff1862 LOC ID: nr92017451 | B/BAP: 1787 DIED: 1862-08-28 |
SOURCES: ; Gentleman's Magazine (November 1862) 649; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
The son of John Taaffe of Smarmore Castle, Co. Louth in Ireland; he was the translator of
Dante and companion of Shelley and Byron in Italy, where he died in 1862. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF John Taaffe: John Taaffe to Lord Byron, [December 1821] in The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) John Taaffe to Lord Byron, [December 1821] in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) |