Gaetano Polidori

(1764-1853)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Polidori, Gaetano, 1764-1853 LBT ID: GaPolid1853 VIAF ID: 59135519 LOC ID: nr93031372	B/BAP: 1764 DIED: 1853-12-15
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (February 1854) 219; DNB ["John Polidori"]; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The father of Byron's acquaintance; after serving as secretary to the Italian poet Alfieri he emigrated to England where he worked as a miscellaneous writer and established a press where he published works by his grandchildren Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti.
REFERENCES TO Gaetano Polidori: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 124 “Lord Byron” in Monthly Review NS 1 (February 1831) 217-37 Found 1: ¶ 10 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. III.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (September 1832) 228-41 Found 1: ¶ 7 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Alastor; Geneva: 1816 Found 1: ¶ 14