Giovanni Battista Belzoni

(1778-1823)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778-1823 LBT ID: GiBelzo1823 VIAF ID: 61541642 LOC ID: n87869660	B/BAP: 1778-11-05 DIED: 1823-12-03
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Italian traveler; his Narrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia (1820) was published by Murray.
REFERENCES TO Giovanni Battista Belzoni: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 22 Lord Byron to John Murray, 16 February 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 9 Benjamin Disraeli to John Murray, August 1822 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 35 Ch. 14: Private Life Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 41 Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 24 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 6 Found 2: ¶ 32 ¶ 33 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIII. Found 8: ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 21 ¶ 22 ¶ 24 ¶ 25 Chap. XXIV. Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 56 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 2: 1808-13 Found 1: ¶ 43 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1803 Found 1: ¶ 4