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… Lincoln himself died shortly afterwards, a victim of his debauched lifestyle. Soon afterwards Zanović found himself in Rome where he assumed the identity of a pious pilgrim named Warta. At the same time, the British noble and courtier, Elizabeth Chudleigh (c. 1720-1788), Duchess of Kingston, was staying in Rome. The duchess was a famous British socialite, who had married a Royal Navy officer, Augustus John Hervey (1724-1779), … When she was found guilty she went to live in Russia at the court of Catherine the Great, and then to France. 6  When in Rome she met a young man named Warta from Venetian Albania, who had aroused much interest in Roman social circles and who …

… Image Joseph Severn, ‘Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound’, 1845, Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome, Italy. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Severn_-_Posthumous_Portrait_of_Shelley_Writing_Prometheus_Unbound_1845.jpg Image Curran, Amelia, ‘Percy Bysshe Shelley’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 1234, 1819 … (1792-1822) purposely cultivated numerous friendships with the most talented writers of his time. In his preface to Prometheus Unbound , Shelley even endeavoured to theorize the complex workings of poetic influence, implicitly …

… the luxury debates through classical Greek and Roman literature. 4  Especially, tales of the rise to power and wealth of Rome and its ultimate fall contained critique of excess and riches. If Tacitus claimed that the ‘virtus’ – the virtue – …

… of popular control: Trust and parochial corruption in early modern England’, in John Sabapathy and María Ángeles Martín Romera (eds.), Popular Control, special issue of Journal of Social History (forthcoming, c. 2023); S. and B. Webb, …

… p. 362. 18 . For its conception by Shaftesbury and Chesterfield, see Philip Ayres, Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 48. 19 . Lawrence Klein, ‘Liberty, …

… relationship between the British and the French. ‘Our tearful dramas are more popular in London than in Paris, and Romeo and Beverlei attract larger audiences here than the masterpieces of Racine and Corneille. It seems that we have …