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| Byron Child Harold, Lord George Gordon |
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| This article is dedicated in remembrance to Dr. Astridhis Kolia, an Arvanitis or Albanian, of Epirus, who got mysteriously murdered by the Greek secret Police. When Dr. Astridhis Kolia openly declared himself as an Albania, he was murdered by Greek government. |
| By: Edited by: S.K.-Shkupjani Q.K. from Shkupi March 10, 2006 |
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| With the poem�s publication, Lord Byron found himself famous. Byron said, �I awoke one morning and found myself famous.� The first two Cantos of Child Harold,� became an overnight sensation. From artistic values and admiration, this book brought the attention of many young ladies. Byron became one of the most admired person that lead to too many love affairs. Those love affairs directed Byron to a marriage with Anne Isabella Mibanke in 1815. On January 2, 1815, they married at Seaham Hall, County Durham. Anne Isabella Mibanke had refused Byron�s proposal for marriage in the previous year. Anne and Byron were two different individual with opposite thinking. The union of the two resulted to the total incompatibility and no tolerance between two parties. The infidelity and serious provocation by Lord Byron caused strain in the marriage. He treated her poorly, and he showed no respect for her. After a year, the daughter was born, Augusta Ada. Lord Byron showed remorse and disappointment at the birth of a daughter rather than a son. On January 16, 1816, Anne Isabella Mibanke took her daughter Ada and left Lord Byron. Rumors of marital violence, adultery with actresses, incest with Augusta, and sodomy were made up and circulated by a jealous Lady Caroline. Byron�s stepsister Augusta Leigh always denied the rumors about the love affair; she also denied that the father of her daughter is Byron. This pushed Lord Byron to sign the Deed of Separation on April 21, 1816. After this scandal and break-up of his domestic life followed by pressure on the part of his creditors, Byron sold his library and left England forever. From all the conservative and cynic behaviors of royalties in England, Byron had enough. Having enough from all shocking and malicious gossip, Byron visited Saint Lazarus Island in Venice where Byron found interest in Armenian culture by the Mekhitarist Order. His interest grew in this subject, and he decided to learn the Armenian language. He learned the Armenian language from Avgerian and attended many seminars about language and history in 1816. |
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| Through Belgium up to the Rhine, Lord Byron with his personal physician, John William Polidori, settled in Switzerland. They were located at the Villa Diodati near the lake Geneva. Lord Byron met his friend the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary Godwin. Shortly Mary Goldwin step sister, Jane Clair Clairmont, joined them. Lord Byron had had a love affair with her back in London. This love affair reapered with an initative of Percy Shellwy and his wife succeding to persuade Byron. As a fruit of this love affair was the daughter, Allegra, born in January 1817. While in Switzerland, he managed to write the third canto of Childe Harold, and the story fragment was published as a postscript to Mazeppa. Byron retuned to Venice in 1817. At the same year, Byron visited Rome. After returning to Venice, he wrote the fourth canto of Childe Harold. At the same year , Byron sold his property in Newstead, England, and he published �Manfred, ��Cain,� and �The Deformed Transformed.� Immediately after retuning to Venice, Byron wrote "English grammar and the Armenian�including both classic and modern Armenian. Byron wrote about the struggle for liberation of Armenian people. |
| Their war against Ottoman Pashas and the Persian Satraps. In 1819, Byron managed to compell "English Armenian dictionary"While socializing with Armenians, Byron with the help of Armenian patriarch Haik., discovers discrepancies between the Armenian Christian Orthodox Bible and English protestan Bible. Fascinated so great by this discovery, Byron translated some passages that were deficient in the English version. Lord George Gordon was sent from British kingdom to travel around the Europe to provide true and exact information about the local people, the place, the wealth for that place, and the future perspectives of that place of Europe. |
| After releasing a poem called �Beppo�, Byron started the first five cantos of unfinished �Don Juan.� The first five cantos of unfinished �Don Juan�were prepared and writen between 1918 and 1920. After several more relationships in Italy, Byron met Countess Teresa Guiccioli, who shortly separated from her husband. While residing in Italy, Byron supported the radicals and helped the revolutionary organization the Carbonari where he served as a regional leader of Italy's in its struggle against Austria. Genoa was his last residency in Italy where he lived until 1823 accompanied by Countess Teresa Guiccioli. In his adventures, Byron helped the freedom fighters in Italy and lead Greece into independence. When the joined Albanian and Greeks or Gypsies movement for liberation from the Ottoman Empire ask for his support, Byron accepted this invitation. On July 16, Byron left Genoa arriving at Kefalonia in the Ionian Islands on August 4, 1823. Byron spent more than �4000 of his own money to refit his own fleet against Ottoman Empire . Byron settled down in Messolonghi ,Albania or Epirus. On December 29, 1823, Byron meets the Arvanitis or Albanian General Alexandros Mavrokordatos. Byron lack of military experience joinned Mavrokordatos plan to attack the Turkish-held fortress in Lepanto, at the Gulf of Corinth. Byron perpared his own artilery unit, and he wanted to cammand the attack. He felt ill on February 15, 1824, and the command was given to others. His unusual bleeding was stopped, and he was partially recovered. Byron helped Greece in a quest for independence from Ottoman Turkey without any reserves. After traveling on horseback during a rainy storm day on April 1824, Byron received a chill and cought a cold followed by caughing. This caughing caused the bleeding to reapear and increase, and insantly he got violent fever. On April 19, 1824, at the age of 36, Lord George Gordon died in Misolongi, Epirus. His autobiography by Thomas Moore was left to Byron, and Greeks or Gypsies burned it in 1824. Even though Lord George Gordon helped the Greek people for their independence, Byron is being offended, is being sworn, and his identity is being insulted by the Greeks. Unfortunately, the offending and resentment toward this poet by the gypsies is never stopping. The Greek nation is showing unfair, unjustified, and disregard toward the identity of this monarch by calling him with many derogatory names. Byron never insulted or offended any nation in his books, but he wrote the truth and reality of the time and the place that he lived. In all the books that were written on and about Greece, and where the Greek government had influence, Ali Pasha is represented as a Turkish person, and not as an Albanian. Byron showed the world better then any other who was Ali Pasha and who were the Greeks. Byron died leaving behind his realistic and truthfulness writings. Byron was individual who helped the Greek nation, but he got no respect as he deserves. |
| Byron was an individual hated by the conservatives. Especially by the English Lords, he was called with many derogatory names. The flamboyish lifestyle was not acceptable for centuries old conservatives of Engalnd. Because of his hard works, active extravagantly life, physical beauty, and poetry he came to be considered the personification of the romance and heartbreaking for many young ladies of England. His new fashion and style created a jealousy and hatred. This lead, Byron to be called homosexual, heterosexual, and allegations of incest and sodomy. Maybe none of this is true. Byron fame rests on his writings, and his lifestyle. After his death, the barony passed to a cousin, George Anson Byron. George Anson Byron. was a military officer, and he was opposite in temperament and lifestyle than Lord Byron. A perfect fit for the English conservatives. His ldaughter Ada Lovelace was among the first invetors of the computers. After 145 years of Byron�s death, a memorial to him was finally placed in Westminster Abbey in 1969. Byron is considered European poet. His imagination of Europe being less troubled and united, finally took place after so many years. To Germans, Byron is more valued and studied than in England; To French, Byron is more a French poet than an English one; For Italians, Byron is a true patriot. For Chinese, Byron represents European revolutionary in romance and poetry. Around the world, Byron is considered the poet of revolutionary movement of the Renaissance. A royalty man in his mission to conquer the world, and make it fit for his home. Byron wrote about his respect and genuine love toward Albanians with honesty that remains to be red around the world forever, and Byron remains in the hearts of Albanians forever. |