The young Countess Guiccioli was Byron's last love, encountered in Italy where she had left her much older (and terribly difficult) husband and was living with her family. A provincial noblewoman, intelligent but naive, as well as an enthusiastic Anglophile, Teresa fell almost instantly for the handsome Milord who was also a poet of European fame, a celebrity and a noted seducer. Byron soon left Italy for his fatal Greek venture, and when he died Teresa went back to her impossible husband, but after some more years of domestic misery left him for good. In later years she became almost an institution, visited and lionised by English visitors and dying as late as 1873. This book, now 50-odd years old, draws heavily on letters and archives which the Guiccioli family has just released.