Margarita Cogni [The Fornarina]

(1819 fl.)

LBT ID: MaCogni1819
SOURCES: Moore, Life of Byron (1830)
A baker's wife, she was the most formidable of Byron's Venetian mistresses.
REFERENCES TO Margarita Cogni [The Fornarina]: Lady Milbanke to Lady Byron, 2 August 1818 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 21 September 1818 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 29 October 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 6 Lord Byron to John Murray, 23 March 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron's family; his indiscretions Found 1: ¶ 35 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1818 Found 5: ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 17 ¶ 19 ¶ 31 Life of Byron: 1819 Found 3: ¶ 38 ¶ 85 ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1820 “Byron’s Memoirs” in Monthly Magazine NS XI (February 1831) 145-59 Found 4: ¶ 59 ¶ 60 ¶ 63 ¶ 76 “Moore’s Memoirs of Byron” in La Belle Assemblée NS 13 (January 1831) 72-99 Found 1: ¶ 3 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 113 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c.” in Literary Gazette (4 February 1832) 73-74 Found 1: ¶ 3 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c. [Concluded]” in Literary Gazette (11 February 1832) 88-89 Found 1: ¶ 3 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) The Pisan Circle Found 1: ¶ 31 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) III. Manfred Found 1: ¶ 2 XI. Byron and Augusta