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Villa Diodati

location_on Cologny, Geneve, Switzerland
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About Villa Diodati

The Villa Diodati is a mansion within the Cologny close to Lake Geneva in Switzerland, amazing because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with John Polidori in the summer season of 1816. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who had rented a house close by, had been frequent site visitors. Because of negative climate, in June 1816 the institution famously spent 3 days collectively inside the house creating testimonies to tell each different, of which were developed into landmark works of the Gothic horror genre: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Vampyre, the first cutting-edge vampire story, by using Polidori.
Originally known as the Villa Belle Rive, Byron named it the Villa Diodati after the circle of relatives that owned it. The own family turned into distantly associated with Italian translator Giovanni Diodati, uncle of Charles Diodati, the near pal of poet John Milton. Despite the presence of a plaque at the Villa heralding a supposed visit of Milton in 1638, in fact the villa was no longer built until 1710, lengthy after Milton's demise.
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