Lord Byron, Notes to Marino Faliero

In his notes to the play, Byron mentions the improvisatore Carrer as one of the few exceptions to Venice’s cultural decay under Austrian occupation.

Performer Name:
Carrer
Performance Venue:
Venice
Performance Date:
 
Author:
Lord Byron
Date Written:
1821
Language:
English
Publication Title:
Marino Faliero
Article Title:
 
Page Numbers:
Endnote to p. 456
Additional Info:
Qtd from The Works of Lord Byron. A New, Revised and Enlarged Edition, with Illustrations. Ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Publisher:
Chadwyck-Healey
Place of Publication:
Cambridge
Date Published:
1994

Text:

From the present decay and degeneracy of Venice under the Barbarians, there are some honourable individual exceptions. […] There are the young Dandolo and the improvvisatore Carrer, and Giuseppe Albrizzi, the accomplished son of an accomplished mother.

Notes:

Marino Faliero was first published and performed 1821.

Collected by:
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