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Abernethy, John, 86, 87 Arezzo, 3,128

Abraham (Biblical patriarch), 19, 25, Aristotle, 39, 123, 147
27, 28, 29, 211 Arno, River, 131
Absalom (prince of Israel), 269 n74 Arrow, Eliza, 43, 210; letter to
Agg, Mrs (schoolmistress), 11 Polidori, 43-4
Aix-la-Chapelle, 63-4 Arrow, Jane, 5
Albany, Louisa, Countess of, 3-4, Athos, Mount, 159
127-8, 133 Austria, 21; political repression, 116,
Aldiss, Brian: Frankenstein Unbound, 117,119,120-4,127
240 Automatism, 85; and Byron, 77, 95;
Alfieri, Vittorio, 3-4, 118, 128; and nationality, 20-1, 84, 247 n24;
Memoirs, 4, 213; Myrrha, 213, 222 and vampirism, 192. See also
Alien Bill, 80, 136 Somnambulism
Ambivalence, 283 n51. See also under Avenches, 67
Byron, George Gordon; Polidori,
John William Bachardy, Don, 240
America, 165 Bastille, 4,132
Ampleforth Abbey, 6, 175 Baudelaire, Charles: 'Metamorphoses
Ampleforth College, 6, 7, 8-9, 11,12, of the Vampire,' 200
14, 237 Beatenberg, 204
Angeli, Helen Rossetti, 244 n5 Beauharnais, Eugene de, 21
Angeli-Dennis collection, 244 n5 Beaumont, Francis, and John
Anorexia, 283 n51. See also under Fletcher: A King and No King, 213
Byron, George Gordon Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana, Marchese
Anti-Catholicism, 5, 6, 12-13, 46-7, di: On Crimes and Punishments, 47-
151, 169, 193 50, 118
Antwerp, 64, 66, 67 Beckford, William: Vathek, 95
Anxiety of influence, ix-x, 157, 167, Bentham, Jeremy, 48
224, 260 n30, 285 n2 Bentinck, Lord William, 21
Appleton, Fr Anselm, 245 n22 Berger (Byron's servant), 56, 76
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18,123; inaccuracy, 118,120,121-2; first Baron. See Hobhouse, John
Red and Black, 118 Cam
Bianchi (Gaetano's acquaintance), 33 Brown, Charles Brockden: Edgar
Bichat, Xavier, 86 Huntly, 37; Wieland, 27
Bientina, 3,131 Bruce, Catherine, Countess, 81, 94,
Bingen, 65 96-7,178
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 150, Bruce, James Daniel, 259 n66
177 Bruch, Hilde, 54
Blake, William, 228, 233; The Four Bruges, 64
Zoas, 233 Bruno, Francesco, 103, 240
Blessington, Marguerite, Countess: Brussels, 63
Conversations of Lord Byron, 4,137 Brutus, 19, 22,138
Boatswain (Byron's dog), 275 n8 Bubna, Graf von, 122
Boccaccio, 125,131 Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte
Boerhaave, Hermann, 39, 86 de, 87
Boethius, 159 Burger, Gottfried August: 'Lenore,'
Bologna, 125-6 34
Bolton, Fr Anselm, 6 Burgess, Fr Thomas: letter to
Bonaparte, Lucien, 139 Polidori, 175-6
Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon Burke, Edmund: Philosophical
Bonivard, Francois, 206 Enquiry, 6, 65,153,154
Bordeaux, archbishop of, 38, 40, 41 Burns, Robert, 193
Borrow, George: Lavengro, 35 Butler, Charles, 175
Borsieri, Pietro, 117, 120,121 Byron, Allegra, 162, 273 n57
Boucicault, Dion: The Phantom, 194 Byron, Anne Isabella (nee Milbanke),
Baroness, 48, 53-4, 57
Bradshaw's railway guide, 196
Byron, Augusta Ada (later Countess
Brazil, 133-4
of Lovelace), 162
Brelaz, Clementine, 94
Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth
Brelaz, Madame (of Geneva), 94, 97,
Baron: and Alfieri, 4; ambivalence,
104,109,114,118,178 103,123,134-5,140,160-5, 253
Breme, Cavalier di (Ludovico's nl7; anorexia, 53-5, 71,100,147-8,
brother), 117 197; bisexuality, 95,162, 240; and
Breme, Ludovico di, 79-80,114-15, the Carbonari, 124; coldness, 74,
118,122,129,151, 266 n46; as a 77, 78, 95,109; and Coleridge, 92;
father-figure for Polidori, 114; death, 136,139, 240; disbelief in
Italian patriotism, 116; letters, 79- ghosts, 99; and dogs, 275 n8; as a
80,115,123,127-8 father-figure for Polidori, x, 59, 71,
Brenton, Howard: Bloody Poetry, 240 102; feelings about Clairmont, 99;
Bridgens, R.: Sketches, 137-8,174 feelings about Polidori, ix, 61, 72,
Brighton, 235 94,100,102-3,153, 239; fires
Broglie, Albertine, Duchesse de, 81- Polidori, 100,102-3; health, ix, 53-
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143, 148; kindness to Polidori, 78,
84, 102,103,118,121, 268 n38; last
impressions of Polidori, 140-1;
letters to Davies, 135-6, 139, 140-1;
letter to Galignani's Messenger, 89,
184; letters to Hobhouse, 61, 63, 71,
72, 94,140,185-6; letter to
Kinnaird, 184; letters to Leigh, 66,
67, 95,100, 119,20,123; letters to
Milbanke, 197, 253 nl7; letters to
Moore, 79, 117,20,123,136, 264
nl7; letters to Murray, 83, 94, 95,
96,02-3,121,132,134-5,140-1,
143, 148, 150, 153, 185; letter to
Noel, 55; letter to Polidori, 55; as a
libertine, 62, 64, 70,198-9;
melancholia, 55; misattributions to,
96, 137, 177-92; mobility, x, 54,
197, 208; notoriety, 95-6, 108,129,
130, 139,142,143,182; orientalism, Calais, 45
210; as portrayed in Polidori's
works, 98, 192, 199, 207, 208-9;
and Prometheus, 54, 90; as a
sentimental father, 96; separation,
48, 53-5, 58; sexism, 79,139,161-
2; and Mary Shelley, 83; and Percy Cantor, Paul A., 285 n2
Shelley, 94; and suicide, 55, 264
nl7; and the theatre, 84, 147; and
vampires, 89, 90-1, 96, 98
- Works: Beppo, 88, 119, 156, 197;
The Bride of Abydos, 213, 214, 217,
221, 283 n42; Cain, 90, 218, 226,
228, 231, 233-4; Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage, 27, 61, 68, 69, 94, 96,
137, 149, 156, 157-65,166-7,190,
197, 209, 226, 272 nn25, 42;
'Churchill's Grave,' 58; The
Corsair, 70,197; 'Dear Doctor - I
have read your play,' 147-8, 149-
50; The Deformed Transformed, 197,
232; Don Juan, x, 54, 62, 88,116,
119, 158,182, 186,189, 190,197,
252 n21; 'Fare Thee Well,' 57, 58,
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149; 'Fragment of a Novel,' 88, 89-
90, 97-8,185,198; The Giaour, 27,
90-1,191,193,197,198, 230-1, 276
n4; The Island, 197; Lara, 97,197,
225; 'Lines Inscribed upon a Cup
Formed from a Skull,' 98; 'Lines to
a Lady Weeping,' 188; Manfred, 90,
99,111-12,148, 212, 214, 217, 220,
230, 231, 234, 248 n4, 264 nl7, 282
n27; Marino Faliero, 213; Mazeppa,
185; 'Ode from the French,' 188;
'An Ode to the Framers of the
Frame Bill,' 188; Parisina, 213, 214,
222; The Prisoner of Chillon, 94,
159, 206, 272 n25; The Siege of
Corinth, 97,197; 'A Sketch,' 57, 58,
149; 'Stanzas to Augusta,' 218; The
Two Foscari, 197; The Waltz, 81;
'Windsor Poetics,' 193-4
Calmet, Dom Augustin: Traite sur les
apparitions, 89
Camillus (Roman hero), 22
Cancellieri, Francesco Girolamo, 168,
170
Capital punishment, 47-50, 139,150,
225
Carbonari, 124,143, 206
Carlo Borromeo, St, 116
Carlsruhe, 72
Caroline, Princess of Wales, 267 n29
Carter, Angela, 203
Cary, H.F., 168,169-70
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart,
Viscount, 21
Catherine the Great (empress of
Russia), 139
Catholic Emancipation, 150,169,175
Cato, 22
Chamounix, 73, 99,137
Charles i (king of England): as a
vampire, 193-4
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Charlotte, Princess, 162
Chateau du Lac, 64, 68
Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene de,
188; 'Rene,' 219
Chiarenza, Marguerite, 249 n7
Chillon, Chateau de, 94, 206
Christison, Robert, 16-17, 32, 38
Churchill, Charles, 58
Cicero, 138,156
Clairmont, Claire, 62, 94, 99,185;
feelings about Polidori, 74,103;
journals, 118-19,132; letters to
Byron, 73-4,103, 273 n57
Clermont, Mary Anne, 57
Colburn, Henry, 96,166,172-3,177-
84,185,186-8,192, 240
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Biographia
Literaria, 153-4, 'Christabel,' 91,
92; Christabel: Kubla Khan, A
Vision; The Pains of Sleep, 92; 'The
Destiny of Nations,' 264 nl5; 'Fire,
Famine, and Slaughter,' 91-2;
'Kubla Khan,' 154; and vitalism, 86
Coliseum, 159
Cologne, 63, 64, 67
Copeland, Thomas, 237, 240
Coppet, 79
Costessy, 152-3
Covent Garden Chambers, 168,172
Cowper, Peter Leopold, fifth Earl,
and Amelia, Countess of, 108
Cowper, William, 28-9
Cullen, William, 35-6, 37-8, 42, 250
n29
Dallas, R.C., 163
Dante Alighieri, 168,169-70; Inferno,
5,227
Darius (emperor of Persia), 158
Darwin, Charles, 100
Darwin, Erasmus, 85, 87, 250 n29,
251 n46; The Loves of the Plants, 36,
37
David (king of Israel), 19
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Davies, Scrope Berdmore, 55, 58, 99-
100, 240
Davies, William, 236
Day, William Patrick, 203, 244 n4,
279 n45, 281 nn4, 96
Deagostini, John, 143-4,146,153,
235-7; letters to Polidori, 145
Debats, Les, 37
Dejean (hotelier of Geneva), 73
D'Eril, Francesco Melzi, 21
Descartes, Rene, 230
Dhiman, Dr S.P., 268 n58
Dickens, Charles: Little Dorrit, 37
Diderot, Denis: Ency dope die, 38-9,
193
Diodati, Villa, 74, 78, 83, 92,154,
182; ghost story project, 83, 87-9,
90,221-2
Donne, John, 28; Biathanatos, 28-9
Dover, 58, 60
Drury Lane Theatre, 33, 84,147,173
Dumas, Alexandre (pere), 194
Duncan, Andrew, 16
East India Company, 210
Ecclesiastes, 138,175-6
Eclectic Review, 150-1,169-70
Edinburgh, 33
Edinburgh Monthly Review, reviews of
Polidori, 188-9, 212, 222, 223
Edinburgh Review, 87,136
Elijah (biblical prophet), 229
Elizabeth i (queen of England), 6
Ellis, John, 87
Elliston, Robert William, 173
England: political repression, 136-7,
155-6,165
Epictetus, 166
Eton College, 75
European Magazine: reviews of
Polidori, 172, 223
Excommunication, 89-90,143
Eyries, Jean-Baptiste-Benoit, 259 n2;
Fantasmagoriana, 83, 91
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Fabricius (Roman hero), 22
Ferdinando iv (king of Sicily), 21
Filicide, 28
Fitzgerald, Colonel (in Milan), 122
Fletcher, John, 213
Fletcher, William, 56
Florence, 127,129,131,137
Flying Dutchman, 96, 199
Forbes, Dom James, 245 n22
Ford, John: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore,
216-17, 218, 221
Foscolo, Ugo, 79, 151; Jacopo Ortis,
119
Foucault, Michel, 36
France, 62-3
Frayling, Christopher, 201
Fredeman, W.E., 244 n5
Freemasonry, 143,192, 196
Freud, Sigmund, 212; 'Family
Romances,' 229; Group Psychology
and the Analysis of the Ego, 215; The
Interpretation of Dreams, 216;
'Mourning and Melancholia,' 27,
215; 'On the Universal Tendency
to Debasement in the Sphere of
Love,' 202; A Special Type of
Choice of Object Made by Men,'
198; 'The "Uncanny," ' 198, 233
Fuseli, Henry, 66; The Nightmare, 36,
37
Gabrini (female Italian violinist), 33
Galignani's Messenger, 89, 184
Gait, John: Life of Lord Byron, 121
Geneva, 62, 158, 205
Geneva, Lake, 65, 74, 94
Genevan Liberal Society, 80-1, 101
Gentleman's Magazine, 193; review of Guilford, Francis North, fourth Earl
Polidori, 166
George in (king of England), 47, 135
George, Prince Regent (of England):
as a vampire, 193-4
Ghent, 63, 64, 66
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Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire, 94,150,163,
190
Gifford, William, 150
Gilbert, William Schwenck:
Ruddigore, 194
Giusto, Olindo (Danish consul to
Brazil), 133,134
Glasgow, 33
Gleckner, Robert F., 283 n42
Gnosticism, 225
Gobinet, Charles, The Instruction of
Youth in Christian Piety, 11,12-13
Godwin, Mary Jane, 185
Godwin, William, 75, 94, 181,185
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 190;
'The Bride of Corinth,' 192,194,
196,198; Faust, 99, 210; The
Sufferings of Young Werther, 81,119,
202, 258 n63, 264 nl7
Goldsmith, Oliver: The Citizen of the
World, 193
Gooch, Robert, 46, 55, 57,150
Gordon, Mrs, 68-9
Gordon, Pryse Lockhart, 68-9, 256
nn47, 50
Granville, Henrietta Elizabeth,
Countess, 137
Grave-robbing, 15, 85
Great Pulteney Street, 168
Greece, 56, 103, 139, 240
Gregory, James, 16-17, 32, 41-2, 71,
147
Grimsel Pass, 110
Grove, Harriet, 75
Guiccioli, Conte Alessandro, 4
Guiccioli, Contessa Teresa, 4
Guide du Voyageur en Europe, 65
of, 135-6
Guilford, Frederick North, fifth Earl
of, 139-40,141
Guilford, Maria, Countess of (widow
of the fourth Earl), 139,140
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Habeas corpus, 156,165
Hallam, Henry: View of the State of
Europe during the Middle Ages, 170
Hanson, John, 48
Harley, Lady Charlotte, 162
Harson, Robert, 173
Hazlitt, William, 194
Henry vm (king of England): as a
vampire, 193-4
Hervey, Elizabeth, 95
Highet, Gilbert, 54
Hippocrates, 31, 42
Hobhouse, John Cam (later first
Baron Broughton), 117,156, 248
n4, 275 n8; defence of Byron, 54-5, Hunter, John, 86
57-8,182,185-6; feelings about
Polidori, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61,103, Hyde Park, 171
109,182-3; Historical Illustrations,
139,150-1,170; kindness to
Polidori, 120,121,122, 267 n29;
letters to Byron, 55, 96,139,182;
letter to Davies, 122-3; letter to
Leigh, 100; ms diaries, 54-5, 57-8,
60, 99-100,119,120,121,123;
mediocre verses, 173; radicalism,
117,128; Recollections, 53, 54, 58,
59, 81-2,103,115,117,128,182,
183,186, 240, 267 n29; sobriety,
54, 58, 59,115
Hodgson, Francis, 55
Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus,
83,194
Hogg, James, 249 n20
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 93
Holland, Henry Richard Vassal Fox,
third Baron, 45
Holmes, Richard, 74, 75, 91
Home, James, 16, 41
Hone, William, 57; Don Juan, 189-90,
277 n26
Hope, Charles, 137
Hope, Thomas (collector), 137;
Anastasius, 137; Costume of the
Ancients, 137; Household Furniture
and Design, 137
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Hope, Thomas (professor at
Edinburgh), 16, 41
Horace, 26, 248 n2, 285 n91
Horner, Francis, 126,136-7, 268 n58
Horner, Leonard, 136
Hotel d'Angleterre (in Geneva), 73
Houghton Library, 262 n87, 276 n4
House of Lords, 33
Howard, Frederick (Byron's cousin),
68
Howard, the Venerable Sir William,
175
Hunt, Leigh, 58,194; Lord Byron and
Some of his Contemporaries, 240
Hutton, James, 100
Immortality, 29-30, 49, 80-1,163-4,
207, 240-1
Incest: Byron and, 95,188, 211, 222;
fatality, 221; and gambling, 194-5,
208; and idealization, 215-19; in
Italy, 120,132; and narcissism,
219-21, 284 nn76, 81; Polidori and,
211; rarity, 161-2; and repression,
211-15, 223, 281 n97, 282 n31, 283
nn42, 48; and vampirism, 90,198,
202, 281 n97
India, 5,11,12, 43-4
Ingenhousz, Jan, 87
Inns of Court, 174
Isella, 109,110
Isherwood, Christopher, and Don
Bachardy: Frankenstein: The True
Story, 240
Italy, 21, 44,158
Jerningham family, 47
Jerningham, Charlotte Georgina,
152-3
Jerningham, Lady Frances, 152,155;
letter to Polidori, 165-6
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Jerningham, Lady Frances (senior),
153
Jerningham, Sir George (later Baron
Stafford), 152,174-5
Jersey, Sarah Sophia, Countess of,
129
Jones, Ernest: On the Nightmare, 197,
198, 261 n55
Journal of Science and the Arts, 149
Juvenal, 130
Kean, Edmund, 33
Kemble, John Philip, 32-3
Keppel, Maria, 58
Kinnaird, Douglas, 45, 58, 184
Kipling, Rudyard: 'The Vampire,' 200
Knighton, Sir William, 53, 55, 253
nl7
La Scala, 116, 117,118,120-2, 207
La Vendee, 91
Laity's Directory, 7
Lamb, Lady Caroline, 95, 139;
Glenarvon, 96, 98, 182, 199
Lamb, Mrs George, 139
Lawrence, William, 86
Le Fanu, Sheridan: 'Carmilla,' 37,
191, 194, 195, 196, 200
Le Mann, Francis, 54
Lecchini (Florentine Inspector of
Police), 127
Leigh, Augusta, 55, 95, 100,140, 218,
248 n4
Leigh, Chandos, 173
Leven, Alexander Melville, seventh
Earl of, 33
Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 99; The
Monk, 169, 216, 219
Liege, 63
Lincoln's Inn, 174, 176
Linnaeus, 36
Lion (Byron's dog), 275 n8
Lipstadt, 65
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Literary Chronicle: reviews of
Polidori, 224, 226
Literary Gazette: reviews of Polidori,
166, 208, 223
Literary Panorama, 214
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson,
second Earl of, 80,156
Livy, 158
Lloyd (Polidori's friend), 101,118,
122,127,131
Locatelli (Milanese physician), 116
Lodi, 122
Lombardy-Venetia, 112-13
London, 13,14, 44, 46, 80,147,168,
170, 235
London Champion, 58
London Courier, 58
London Examiner, 58,194
London Morning Chronicle, 58,180,
188
London Morning Post, 58
London Times, 58, 146
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and
Brown, 172,173, 223
Louis xvi (king of France), 22
Lucan, 4
Luddism, 80
Lyell, Sir Charles, 100
Macpherson, Jay, 248 n4, 249 n20,
285 n87
Mainz, 67
Malines, 64
Manlius (Roman hero), 22
Mannheim, 71
Marathon, 68, 256 n47
Marchand, Leslie A., 277 n26
Marcus Aurelius, 166
Marschner, Heinrich August: Der
Vampyr, 191,194,199, 201
Marsh, Fr Richard, 14
Martineau, Elizabeth, 47
Martineau, Harriet, 34-5, 46-7,153,
239
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Martineau, Mr (physician of
Norwich), 46
Marx, Karl: Capital, 194
Mason, James, 240
Massey, Mr (in Geneva), 94
Materialism: 86-7
Maturin, Charles: Melmoth the
Wanderer, 169,191, 217
McDowall, Mrs (Polidori's landlady),
44-5, 57
McGrath, Kathleen, 244 n3
Medical Journal, 53
Medical Society (Edinburgh), 17
Medwin, Thomas: Conversations of
Lord Byron, 28, 70,102,143,147,
185, 239-40; inaccuracy, 71, 88,
185; Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley,
152-3
Menelaus, 269 n74
Menninger, Karl, x
Menuret de Chambaud, Jean-Jacques,
38-9, 40
Mer de Glace, 99
Merimee, Prosper, 194
Merivale, John Herman, 169; 'The
Dead Men of Pest,' 89,192,196,
198, 201
Milan, 114, 206
Milbanke, Anne Isabella. See Byron,
Anne Isabella
Milton, John, 4,108; Comus, 169; 'II
Penseroso,' 169, 233-4; 'L'Allegro,'
169; 'Lycidas,' 169, 229; Paradise
Lost, 218, 221, 224-5, 233-4, 287
n68
Missolonghi, 136
Mitford, John, 178,181,183,184,190,
262 n87, 276 nn3, 4
Mitford, William: History of Greece,
170
Mithradates vi (king of Pontus), 239,
288 nl8
Mitylene, 178,184,188
Modena, 125
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Monro, Alexander i, 15-16
Monro, Alexander m, 15-16, 32, 38,
41,86
Montboyon, 109
Montevarchi, 131
Monthly Magazine, 34,177; review of
Polidori, 189
Monthly Review, 34; reviews of
Polidori, 166-7,172,189,192,196,
222, 223
Monti, Vincenzo, 117,118,119,122
Moore, Doris Langley, 273 n5 7
Moore: Thomas, Life of Lord Byron,
70, 71, 76, 77, 78, 83-4, 85, 94,
101-2, 259 n7
Morel, 109
Murat, Gioacchino, 21
Murray, John: as Byron's publisher,
140,182,183-4,185; as Coleridge's
publisher, 92; as a conservative,
135,150; letters to Byron, 147,148,
182,183-4, 239; as Polidori's non-
publisher, 56,134,147-50,169,
260 n30
Names, xii, 73, 152,176, 217, 234,
244 n6
Naples, 21,138
Napoleon: as a hero, 21, 54-5, 58, 64,
67-8,114,117,122,123; as a tyrant,
21-2, 32,165, 278 n35
New Monthly Magazine, 177-8,186;
review of Polidori, 173
Newstead Abbey, 98
Nightmare, 35-7, 42, 84; and
vampirism, 194,198
Nodier, Charles, 37,194, 278 n35
Noel, Lady Judith, 55, 96
Noel, Sir Ralph, 55
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, 143
Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich
Gazette, 152,167
North, Frederick, second Earl of
Guilford, 135
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Norwich, 35, 44, 45-6, 143, 147,152,
204, 239
Norwich Philosophical Society, 35,
143, 156
Odier, Dr (of Geneva), 78, 81, 87-8
Oedipus: xi, 198, 212, 213. See also
under Sophocles
Old St Pancras Churchyard, 237
Opie, Amelia: Father and Daughter,
126
Orality: anxiety, 111; confusion of
identities, 93; masochism, 66, 93,
157-8; sadism, 92, 93, 158,170, 215
Orbach, Susie, 197
Ostend, 62, 198-9
Paer, Ferdinando: Agnese, 126
Pamphleteer, 56
Paole, Arnold (vampire), 193, 200
Paris, 4
Parma, 125
Passer, Ivan: Haunted Summer, 240
Paterson, Wilma, 54
Peacock, Thomas Love, 94;
Nightmare Abbey, 95, 97
Peel, Robert, 48
Pellico, Silvio, 121
Penal Laws, 6, 175
Perry, James, 180-1, 186
Persius, 158
Peter the Great (emperor of Russia),
259 n66
Petrarch, 116
Pictet (of Geneva), 78
Pierce, Frederick (uncle), 5, 11, 43,
44-5
Pierce, William (grandfather), 5
Pisa, 131,136,137
Pitt, William, the Younger, 91-2
Planche, James Robinson: The
Vampire, 191,194, 199-200
Plato, 166; Phaedo, 28, 48, 225, 248
nl3; Phaedrus, 225; Republic, 225
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Po, River, 158
Polidori, Agostino Ansano
(grandfather), 3; Osteologia, 3, 5,
131
Polidori, Anna Maria (mother, nee
Pierce), xii, 5, 34, 45, 57,144
Polidori, Charlotte (sister), 11, 57, 60,
81, 254 n2
Polidori, Eliza (sister), 57
Polidori, Frances Maria Lavinia
(sister, later Frances Rossetti), xii,
3,11, 43, 57, 211, 238-9
Polidori, Gaetano (father): and
Alfieri, 3-4; appropriation of
Polidori, 108,145-7, 237-8; and
the Bible, 9, 145; coldness, 18;
criticisms of Polidori, 9-10, 22-3,
56, 80,108,126,130-1,144-5,
166; dictionary, 74; 'Directions,'
7-8, 10,18; on discipline, 7; as
domineering, 5; education, 3;
egotism, 11, 23; English patriotism,
4, 9-10, 56, 80; expectations for
Polidori, 5,11,13, 238; fear of
madness, 23,126, 238; feelings
about Byron, 55,108; financial
support of Polidori, 130,144-5;
and the French Revolution, 4, 6,
22; 'Gaetano Polidori a Giovanni
suo figlio Epistola,' 166; as an
Italian teacher, 4, 14, 32,152;
jealousy, 146; letter to Thomas
De Ocheda, 235, 238; letters to
Polidori, 6-7, 9, 22-3, 80,108,131-
2, 144-7; letters to Luigi Polidori,
56; marriage, 5; parsimony, 9, 127;
as portrayed in Polidori's works,
28, 60,172, 209, 211; as a
publisher, 4-5; suspicions of
Polidori, 8,14,18,130-1; as a
translator, 4,169
Polidori, Henry (brother), 57,147,
245 n31
Polidori, John William: accidents, 62,
64, 77, 83-4, 152, 236; aesthetics,
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6, 65-6; ambition, 13-14, 20, 25-6,
59, 84, 90,103,115, 247 n23;
ambivalence, 13-14,19, 21, 34, 48,
67, 87,161-2,165-6, 205, 214,
228-9; Anglophobia, 20-1, 81; and
anti-Catholicism, 6,12, 47; and
anti-Italian prejudice, 46, 55,143,
152,176,182; bibliomania, 62, 63,
64,116-17,125,144,147; as a butt
of humour, ix, 12,17, 59, 71, 84, 95,
134; as Byron's physician, ix, 3, 47,
71, 76; as Byron's secretary, 65, 76;
and Catholicism, 5, 6,12-14,15,
47, 65,143,152,168-9; classicism,
6-7,19, 67,117,138,154, 204, 209,
247 n30; closeness to his mother,
xii, 34, 41, 44-5,176; confession in
the works of, 60, 208; and
damnation, 29, 49, 225, 239, 241;
and dogs, 109,128,129,131,171-2;
duels, attempted, 101-2,121;
ecclesiastical vocation, x, 11,13-14,
164,176; English patriotism, 48,
140; extravagance, 78,130,144;
feelings about Byron, 102; feelings
about Hobhouse, 100,151; feelings
about Percy Shelley, 75,101; filial
anxiety, 5-6,11,14,18, 20, 27-8,
41,107-8,149, 230; filial
obedience, 11-12,13-14,18-19, 34,
107, 157-9; filial pedantry, 114, 151;
filial rebellion, 10,14,19, 20, 23-4,
28, 29, 34, 57, 59, 71,102,126,
160-4,169,176, 211, 233, 238, 268
n38; filial submission, 13-14, 24,
129; finances, 44, 45, 56, 63,103,
108,117,118,122,127,131,133,
142,144,147,186-7, 268 n38; and
gambling, 47,130,194-5, 208, 235,
237; and the Gothic, 6, 9,15, 37,
207; health, 62, 72,149,152-3,
170, 236-7; on hygiene, 62, 63, 82,
109,127; independence, desire for,
107,142,149,159-60,169, 211,
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235; influence of Byron on, 21, 48,
50, 57, 60, 69, 79,170,173, 223;
ingratitude, 84, 268 n38; inversion
in the works of, 27, 29, 59, 98, 140,
172, 230; Italian patriotism, 10,11,
19-22, 32, 48, 56, 79, 80,104,110,
112-13,120-4,126,127,129,138,
164-5,168; jealousy of Byron, 69-
71, 78; knowledge of Italian, 14, 32,
46, 76, 249 n7; and law, x, 47-50,
17.4,180,188; letters to Byron, 109,
110,126-7,128,132-4,137; letter
to Colburn, 179; letters to Frances,
31-2, 32-3, 34, 35, 41, 44-5, 56,
69-70,150,170-1,173,190, 223;
letters to Gaetano, 9,10-11,11-14,
18-21, 31, 68, 76, 79, 80,102,104,
107,129; letter to Hobhouse, 68,
71; letter to Lady Frances
Jerningham, 155; letter to Sir
George Jerningham, 174-5; letter
to the Morning Chronicle, 186-8,
276 n5; letters to Murray, 68, 76,
80, 92,143,147,149-50,168-9,
270 n25; letter to the New Monthly
Magazine, 181; letters to Sherwood,
Neely, and Jones, 180; letters to
Taylor, 56, 79,101,102,107-8; and
literature, x, 25-6, 57, 59, 69-70,
84, 90,138,144,147,168,174;
loneliness, 18, 20-1, 94,109-10,
170-2,174; love affairs, 43, 47, 60,
74, 94,152-3; and medicine, x, 13,
17,18, 20, 26, 31-2, 35-42, 71-2,
76, 84, 93,100-1,132-6,142-3,
144,147,168, 239; melancholia, 11,
208, 212; military prospects, 11,12,
22-3 mobility, x, 3, 6, 25, 26, 48,
100,126; on narcissism, 29-30,
225-6; as a national stereotype,
121,124,152,166; and orientalism,
27, 210; on perjury, 50,190-1;
pessimism, 17,138,154,160-5; and
philosophy, x, 38-41, 153-67;
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plagiarism, 27, 97; and politics, x,
21, 48, 67-9, 79-80,101,112-13,
128, 150,155-6,164-5,170, 281 n4;
'Poor Polidori,' 72, 88, 103,166,
239; quarrels, 70-1, 77, 101-2, 120-
2; and scenery, 6, 65, 110,126-7;
and sex, 38, 60, 62, 63-5, 81-2;
sexism, 4, 64, 81-2, 85,118,127,
128, 133,161-2, 199; on
somnambulism, 35-41, 78, 85; split
personality, 48, 80, 150; and
suicide, x, 6, 28-30, 47, 50,102,
111-12, 130, 235-41, 247 n30, 264
nl7; suspicions of Gaetano, 57,
133, 134; tactlessness, 33,104,128;
on vitalism, 40, 84-5, 86-7; will,
57
Lost Works: Boadicea, 59-60, 84,
148; Cajetan, 60, 84, 148; The Duke
of Athens, 134,148; Italian medical
journal, 134-5,149
Works: 'Chatterton to his Sister,'
197, 202; Diary, 56, 58-9, 60-1, 62-
9, 71-2, 73-9, 81-2, 83-8, 91-5,
101, 104, 109-10, 112, 114-24, 125-
9, 131-2, 134, 137, 182, 183,185,
205-6, 254 n38, 267 nl7;
Disputatio Medica Inauguralis, xi,
35-41, 42, 45, 78; 'The dog Carlos,
and Miss Emma,' 171-2; Ernestus
Berchtold, x, xi, 30, 57, 60, 88, 89,
91, 109-10, 116,120,130, 132,139,
162, 164, 169, 173, 180, 195, 204-
12, 214-19, 221-3, 230, 235, 248
n4, 260 n30, 282 n27; An Essay
upon the Source of Positive Pleasure,
7, 17, 20, 152-67, 172, 215, 227,
272 n42; The Fall of the Angels, 164,
174,175, 224-34; 'My Dream,' 110-
12, 251 n2, 264 nl7; 'On the
Punishment of Death,' 47-50, 56-
7,118,139, 190-1; 'On Woman,'
161; reviews, 150-1, 168-9;
Sketches, 125, 138, 174, 234; 'Song,'
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21; 'Sonnet: On Leaving Italy for
England,' 140; 'Sonnet. To my
Book,' 172; 'Sonnet. To Wm.
Taylor, Jun. of Norwich,' 47;
'Sonnet: Written in the Album, at
Costessy,' 152; 'To Italy,' 112; To
Mrs. —. Presenting her a copy of
my "Essay on Pleasure," ' 155; The
Vampyre, ix, 3, 37, 47, 55, 77-8, 88,
89, 93, 97-8,130,143,170,173,
177-93,194-8,199, 201-3, 207,
208, 211, 221-2, 276 n4; 'The
Wreath,' 110-12; 'Written at the
Grimsel,' 110, 264 nl7; Ximenes,
25-30, 43, 48-9, 59, 84,116,134,
147-9,164,198, 211, 224, 230, 239,
248 n4, 260 n30; Ximenes, The
Wreath, and Other Poems, 25-6,
172-3
Polidori, Luigi Eustachio (uncle), 3,
11, 38, 40, 55, 128,131,146; letter
to Gaetano, 129-30
Polidori, Margaret (sister), 11, 57
Polidori, Robert (brother), 10,11, 57,
147, 245 n31
Pollent (Flemish artist), 65
Pontelli, Cavalier (of Florence), 127,
131
Popular Tales and Romances of the
Northern Nations, 278 n41
Prussia, 63,128
Prussian, the (Polidori's friend), 125,
126, 127,128
Pulci, Luigi, 3, 169
Quarterly Review, 86,168,169
Radcliffe, Ann: The Italian, 169
Reaumur, Rene-Antoine Ferchault
de, 87
Reductionism, 39-40
Reed, Charlotte, 236-7, 240
Regulus (Roman hero), 22
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Repression: of authorship, x-xi; of
Byron's memoirs, 276 n3; in
Coleridge, 93; of Polidori's Diary,
57, 60, 81, 254 n2; and
homosexuality, 162; and incest,
211-15, 222, 281 n97, 282 n31, 283
nn42, 48; and the Masonic oath of
secrecy, 143,192, 278 n35; in Scott,
278 n40, 284 n76; and sexuality,
64; and Shelley, 76, 99,103; and
suicide, 235, 237-8; and tuber-
culosis, 285 n88; and vampirism,
190-1, 203, 281 n97
Revolution, French, 4, 6, 45, 79, 91-2,
164-5,191-2
Revolution, Glorious, 175
Revolution Society (Norwich), 45
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars,
6,11, 22, 34, 46, 48, 66-7,156,165,
204-5
Rhine, River, 65, 67
Rice, Anne, 203
Richardson, Br Terence, 245 nn26, 31
Rieger, James, x
Rigby, Dr (of Norwich), 46
Robberds, J.W., 156,159
Robberds, May, 155
Roche, Dr de (of Geneva), 78, 79
Rogers, Samuel, 150
Rome, 129,138-9
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 48, 49-50, 252
n21
Rossetti, Christina, 5
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 5,130, 211,
237
Rossetti, Gabriele, 3
Rossetti, William Michael: as an
editor, 59-60, 81, 209, 247 n24,
254 n2, 268 n66; as a family
historian, 43,143, 237; as a
spiritualist, 240-1
Rossi, Pellegrino, 81, 94
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 94,189-90
Royal College of Physicians
(London), 37, 46
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Royal Institution, 149
Rubens, Peter Paul, 65-6
Rushton, Robert, 56,100
Ruskin, John, 160
Russell, Ken: Gothic, 240
Rutherford, Daniel, 16, 32
Rymer, James Malcolm: Varney, the
Vampyre, 37, 38,191,195,196,199,
200-1
'S.A.' (anonymous poet), 274 n75;
'To the Author of an Essay on the
Source of —,' 167
St Bernard, Mount, 110
St Juliers, 64
St Laurence, monastery of, 6, 7
St Nicholas in Carcere, church of, 159
Saladin, M. (of Geneva), 78
Saladin, Madame (of Geneva), 94
Sanguinetto, stream, 158
Sappho, 139
Sauvages, Francois Boissier de, 36,
39; Nosologia Methodica, 38
Schiller, Friedrich: The Bride of
Messina, 222; Don Carlos, 213, 217,
221, 222
Scipio, 22,138
Scott, Walter: on Byron, 166; and
Coleridge, 92; The Field of Waterloo,
68-9, 256 n49; Guy Mannering, 278
n40, 284 n76; 'William and Helen,'
34
Secheron, 73
Second World War, 244 n5
Senf, Carol A., 279 n45
Serpentine, the, 171
Sgricci, Tommaso, 118-20
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet, 27,
30; Measure for Measure, 27, 30;
Merchant of Venice, 33; Romeo and
Juliet, 88
Sharp, Michael William, 35,137; 'An
Essay on Gesture,' 35
Shelley, Harriet, 73, 75, 93,192
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (nee
Godwin), 62, 77, 93, 94, 237; on
Byron's works, 88; and Coleridge,
91; as an editor, 214; feelings about
Polidori, ix, 71, 76, 85; inaccuracy,
83, 84, 87, 88, 91, 209, 259 n7;
letters, 88; notoriety, 181, 185; and
vitalism, 85, 118-19
- Works: The English in Italy,' 119;
Frankenstein, 71, 83, 84-7, 88, 91,
99, 180,189,198, 209, 225-6, 240,
259 n7, 260 n30, 273 n57; The Last
Man, 207, 227; Mathilda, 221
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 62, 77, 237;
abandoned ghost story, 88, 91;
atheism, 73, 75, 132; belief in
ghosts, 99; and Byron, 74, 77, 94;
death, 240; feelings about Polidori,
75, 101-2, 103; finances, 75, 93-4;
and Frankenstein, 84-5,189; and
free love, 93; health, 74-5, 103,
132; letter to Byron, 103; letter to
Maria Gisborne, 217; and non-
violence, 93, 102; notoriety, 76;
panic, 91, 93; pantheism, 163;
Platonism, 118; unreliable
confessions, 74-6, 93-4; as a
vampire, 192
- Works: Alastor, 111, 219, 226; The
Cenex, 198, 214, 217, 218, 221, 222;
A Defense of Poetry, 154;
'Epipsychidion,' 268 n66; 'Hymn
to Intellectual Beauty,' 94; Laon and
Cythna, 214, 217, 220, 221; 'Mont
Blanc,' 99; 'Ode to the West Wind,'
227; 'On Love,' 220; 'Ozymandias,'
227; Prometheus Unbound, 228,
233; A Proposal for Putting
Reform to a Vote Throughout the
Kingdom,' 45; Queen Mab, 75; The
Revolt of Islam, 214; St. Irvyne, 219-
20; The Witch of Atlas,' 93;
Zastrozzi, 75
Shelley, Percy Florence, 132
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Shelley, William, 76
Sherlock, William: A Practical
Discourse concerning Death, 239
Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 177,
179,180-1
Sicily, 21
Slaney, Mrs (of Geneva), 82
Small, Christopher, 91
Smith, Adam, 15
Smith, Horace, 227
Socrates, 28,163
Somerstown, 6
Somnambulism, 35-41, 42, 78; and
automatism, 85; and vampirism,
37, 38, 92
Sontag, Susan, 285 n88
Sophocles: conception of fate, 3;
Oedipus Tyrannus, 213, 222, 223
Sours, John A., 283 n51
Southey, Robert, 46, 62,185, 248
nl6; Thalaba the Destroyer, 192,
194,196,198
Spall, Timothy, 240
Spontaneous generation, 87
Spurzheim, Johann Christoph, 253
nl7
Stael, Germaine de, 79-80, 95-6,
104,129; Reflexions sur le suicide,
103, 159
Stagg, John: 'The Vampyre,' 192,194,
196, 198, 200
Stahl, Georg Ernst, 86
Stationers' Hall, 177,180
Stendhal. See Beyle de Stendhal,
Marie-Henri
Stewart, Charles Edward, the Young
Pretender, 3, 128
Stewart, Dugald: Elements of the
Philosophy of the Human Mind, 154,
272 n28
Stoker, Bram: Dracula, 37, 38, 86,
191,194,195-6,197, 201-3, 259-60
nl8, 281 n94
Straub, Peter, 83
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Suicide, 28-9, 34, 35, 50, 288 n7. See
also under Polidori, John William
Summers, Montague, 203
Suvorov (governor of Milan), 116,
122,124
Swann, Gregory, 245 n31
Swift, Jonathan, 155
Switzerland, 204-5
Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles-
Maurice de, 205
Tasso, Torquato, 76
Taylor, William, 47, 55, 57,156;
criticisms of Polidori, 142-3; as a
father-figure for Polidori, 34-5;
Historic Survey of German Poetry,
34; letters to Polidori, 35, 38, 44,
45-6, 85,142-3; letter to Southey,
46; radicalism, 45,101
Thackeray, William Makepeace:
Memorials of Gormandizing, 54
Thrasimene, battle of, 158,160
Thun, 107,109
Thunersee, 204
Tieck, Ludwig: 'Wake Not the Dead,'
194, 278 n41
Timoleon, 19
Tissot, Samuel-Auguste-Andre-
David, 254 n47
Torrington, John Byng, Viscount, 66
Trelawny, Edward John, 70, 273 n5 7
Twitchell, James B., 247 n24, 280
n78, 281 n95, 282 n23
University of Edinburgh, 11,13,14,
15-18, 31-2, 36, 41-2, 55, 85,154
University of Leyden, 15-16, 86
University of Pisa, 3, 45,132
Vacca Berlinghieri, Andrea, 129,131-
3,134,135,136; as a father-figure
for Polidori, 108,132
Vacca, Sofia, 131-2,133
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Vampirism: and automatism, 192;
Byron on, 89, 90-1, 96, 98;
Coleridge and, 92; and contagion,
200-1; and decomposition, 89-90;
exploitation as, 94,194-5; and
gambling, 195; and identity, 192-3,
279 n45; and incest, 90,198, 202,
281 n97; medicine as, 16; and
misogyny, 199-200, 280 n87; and
mobility, 196-7, 208, 234; and
moonlight, 278-9 n41; and
nightmare, 37,194,198; and
nympholepsy, 285 n87; and
orality, 158,170, 215; plagiarism as,
27, 97; and politics, 165,193-6;
and repression, 190-1, 203, 281
n97; and seduction, 197-203; and
Percy Shelley, 94,192; and
somnambulism, 37, 38, 92; and
vitalism, 86, 92
Vandyke, Sir Anthony, 66
Veeder, William, 93, 244 n6
Venereal disease, 42, 60,133, 201
Venice, 140
'Verax' (anonymous enemy of 'S.A.'),
274 n75
Vergil, 116
Vidoni, Robert, 249 n7
Viets, Henry R., 237, 259 n66, 276-7
n7
Vitalism, 40, 86-7, 92
Viviani, Emilia, 268 n66
Viviani, Governatore (of Pisa), 268
n66
Vlad the Impaler, 194
Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet de,
190,193
Wagner, Richard: The Flying
Dutchman, 199; Goiterdammerung,
221; Parsifal, 202; Tannhauser, 202
Waller, Gregory A., 279 n45
Walpole, Horace: The Castle of
Otranto, 217; The Mysterious
Mother, 213, 216, 219, 221, 223
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Wasserman, Earl R., 283 n48, 284
n81
Waterloo, 58, 67, 160, 256 n47
Watkins, John, 177
Watts, Alaric, 177-80, 183-4, 186,
187, 276 n4
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, first
Duke of, 80
Wells, H.G.: The War of the Worlds,
196
Werner, Abraham Gottlob, 100
West, Paul: Lord Byron's Doctor, 240
Westmorland, Jane, Countess of, 104,
129,133,139, 141
Wiene, Robert: The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari, 37
Williams, Edward, 70-1
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Wohlbriick, Wilhelm August: Der
Vampyr, 191,194,199, 201. See also
Marschner, Heinrich August
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 185, 237
Wood, Robin, 203
Wordsworth, William, 163
Wright, Dr (of Norwich), 46
Xerxes (emperor of Persia), 190
Yarmouth, 166
Yeats, William Butler, 273 n5 7
York, 6
Young, Edward: Love of Fame, 20
Zaharuk, Dr D.I. Macdonald, 268 n58
Zimmermann, Johann Georg, 170-1
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