Countess Marina Querini Benzon [née Chiara]

(1757-1839)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Querini Benzon, Marina, 1757-1839 LBT ID: MaBenzo1839 VIAF ID: 2356679 LOC ID: nr95010635	B/BAP: 1757-07-28 DIED: 1839-03-01
SOURCES: Marchand, Byron, a Biography (1957); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Venetian hostess at whose conversazione Byron met Terese Guiccioli.
REFERENCES TO Countess Marina Querini Benzon [née Chiara]: Lord Byron to John Murray, 17 April 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 25 May 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 9 November 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 31 May 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to Lady Hardy, 28 March 1823 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1818 Found 1: ¶ 22 Life of Byron: 1819 Found 5: ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ 52 ¶ 65 ¶ 66 Life of Byron: 1820 Life of Byron: 1821 Life of Byron: 1823 “Byron’s Memoirs” in Monthly Magazine NS XI (February 1831) 145-59 Found 1: ¶ 68 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (July 1832) 5-23 Found 1: ¶ 29