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In the News (Fri 5 Dec 08)

  
 UBC Archives -:An Inventory of their Collection at the University of British Columbia Library, Special Collections Division
Polidori was father of Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti, thus connecting him to the Rossetti family.
Series consists of the papers of Frances Mary Lavinia (Polidori) Rossetti, (1801-1886), and includes diaries, manuscripts and letters.
Series consists of outgoing letters of Eliza Polidori, sister of Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti.
data.library.ubc.ca /spcol/servlet/EadXSLTServletV2?xml=Angeli-Dennis.xml&xsl=eadfinal.xsl

  
 Goblin Market
She was born in London, England, to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti (The Victorian Web).
Born in London, to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti.
When she was seventeen, her grandfather, Gaetano Polidori, printed a small volume of her work at his private press (Magill 1730).
www.shoults.org /cheryl/writings/Essays/goblinmarket/Goblin%20Market-online.htm

  
 Gaetano Polidori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His daughter Frances Polidori married exiled Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti and had four children, Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti.
His oldest son John William Polidori was a physician to Lord Byron and author of the first vampire story in English, The Vampyre (1819).
He was the son of Agostino Ansano Polidori (1714-78), a physician and poet who lived and practised in Bientina, near Pisa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaetano_Polidori   (306 words)

  
 National Portrait Gallery Research Archive documents NPG 990
A biographical account by W.M. Rossetti of his uncle John Polidori, his mother Frances Rossetti and his sister Christina Rossetti, sent to Lionel Cust, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, on 29 August 1895.
Was son of an English mother and of Gaetano Polidori, a Tuscan who came to England in 1790, after being secretary to the famous Tragedian Comte Alfieri: he taught Italian, and wrote and published (or printed privately) many things - Verse, translation of the whole of Milton's Poems etc. J.
Polidori took his degree of M.D. at Edinburgh at age of 19.
www.npg.org.uk /betsie/parser.pl/0005/www.npg.org.uk/live/rp990a.asp   (306 words)

  
 Rossetti Conference background
His wife Frances Polidori was half-English half-Italian, and her father Gaetano Polidori was a political exile from Tuscany.
Their father Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), Professor of Italian at King's College London, was a political exile from Naples.
www.english.cam.ac.uk /rossetti/background.htm   (306 words)

  
 Biography for: Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti
Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti, née Polidori, was the fourth of the seven surviving children of Anna Maria and Gaetano Polidori, an author and Italian teacher.
She had three brothers, John, who was the travelling physician of Lord Byron in 1816, Philip and Henry, and three sisters, Charlotte, Margaret and Eliza.
www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Rosse_G.htm   (306 words)

  
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Chronology
April: Birth of Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori ("The Antique").
Birth of Gaetano Polidori at Bientana, son of Agostino Ansaldo ("Grandfather Polidori").
Christina Rossetti's sonnet on the dissolution of the P.R.B. December: Death of Gaetano Polidori ("Grandfather Polidori").
www.rossettiarchive.org /chronology.html   (4551 words)

  
 ROSSETTI, Christina (Rufname) Georgina
seiner Ehefrau Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori (Tochter Gaetano P.s [1764-1853], Sekr.
Großvater G. Polidori druckte sie auf seiner Privatpresse; in gleicher Weise erschien 1845 (1847?) ein kleiner GedichtBd.
Polidori, John William, in: DNB; - Richard Garnett (+), Art.
www.bautz.de /bbkl/r/rossetti_c_g.shtml   (4551 words)

  
 Christina Georgina Rossetti
In 1826 he married Frances Mary Larima Polidori, whose father, Gaetano Polidori, was also a political refugee.
It is interesting, too, to recall the fact that her brother, John Polidori, was the young Italian doctor who accompanied Lord Byron on his travels in the East.
At the age of twelve Christina composed some verses of greeting for her mother's birthday which Gaetano Polidori, delighted with his little grand-daughter's facility, printed on his private printing-press in Regent's Park.
justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/bios/cgrossetti.html   (4551 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Rossetti, Christina
Frances, the London-born daughter of Italian poet and translator Gaetano Polidori, married Gabriele in 1826.
Gabriele, an Italian political exile and poet, settled in England in 1824 and was appointed Professor of Italian at King’s College in 1831.
Rossetti’s earliest surviving poem dates from April 1842 and was written as a birthday present to her mother.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3852   (4551 words)

  
 ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882) - Online Information article about ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882)
against Ferdinand I., came to England, where he married in 1826 Frances Mary Polidori (d.
1886), sister of Byron's physician, Dr John Polidori, and daughter of a Tuscan, Gaetano Polidori, who had in early youth been Alfieri's secretary and who had married an English lady.
In 1831 he became professor of Italian in King's College, London, and afterwards achieved a recognized position as a subtle and original, if eccentric, commentator on Dante.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /RON_SAC/ROSSETTI_DANTE_GABRIEL_1828_18.html   (4551 words)

  
 WS Vol 3_04a
Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti though English by birth and maternal parentage, was daughter of an Italian gentleman, well known in his day, Gaetano Polidori, as the translator of the poetry of Milton into sympathetic, if not majestic or masterly Italian.
Gabriel Rosetti, patriot, exile, poet, philospher, mystic, student, artist, and most genial and winsome man of strong character, was "a father in a million," as his elder son loved to speak of him.
He told me of the little book of hers printed privately in 1847 by her grandfather, Mr.
www.sundown.pair.com /Sharp/WSVol_3/C.%20Rossetti01.htm   (4551 words)

  
 Rossetti
He was born in London as the son of the poet Gabriele Rossetti (who had been a librettist for the composer Rossini), and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori Rossetti, the sister of Byron's physician, Dr. John Polidori.
Paolo and Francesca (from Dante's Divine Commedy--the image shows them reading and falling in love, and Virgil and Dante meeting them in The Inferno.)
As a student at the Royal Academy Antique School (1845-47), he met William Holman Hunt and John Millais, with whom he launched the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.
www.modjourn.brown.edu /Image/Rossetti/Rossetti.htm   (332 words)

  
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti
In England he taught and worked as a Dante scholar, marrying the much younger Frances Polidori, niece of Dr. John Polidori (who later wrote The Vampyre).
Respected writer John Ruskin came to their defense, and in turn became a Pre-Raphaelite friend for life (and one could say they were a friend to him, since
He was Lord Byron's companion during his exile from England in 1816.
www.walrus.com /~gibralto/acorn/germ/DGRossetti.html   (1046 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti - Religious poems
When he married the agnostic Lucy Madox Brown (daughter of Ford Madox Brown) in 1874, Christina and Frances moved in with two Polidori aunts.
After her father’s death in 1854, Christina and her mother Frances Polidori lived with her brother William.
From 1860 to 1870, Christina was an associate at St. Mary Magdelene’s at Highgate, a sisterhood devoted to redeeming fallen women, where her sister Maria was one of the nuns.
users.telenet.be /gaston.d.haese/rossettirp.html   (3190 words)

  
 D.G. Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rosetti was born in London, the son of the poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori Rossetti, sister of Byron's physician, Dr. John Polidori.
Brother of poet Christina Rossetti, painter and poet too, who was in the 1840s one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Rossetti's poems are distinguished by fantasy, leading the reader to times past, to medieval colour, Arthurian legend, and Dantesque mysticism.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /dgrosset.htm   (3190 words)

  
 Rossetti
He was born in London as the son of the poet Gabriele Rossetti (who had been a librettist for the composer Rossini), and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori Rossetti, the sister of Byron's physician, Dr. John Polidori.
In a romantic gesture, Rossetti threw the manuscript of his poems into the grave when his wife was burried, but later repented and had his friends dig it up again.
It is ironic, then, that the work of Rossetti and the PRB in general was condemned by a critic in the Contemporary Review in 1871 as "fleshly"--and this in the era of Bouguereau.
www.modjourn.brown.edu /Image/Rossetti/Rossetti.htm   (3190 words)

  
 D.G. Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rosetti was born in London, the son of the poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori Rossetti, sister of Byron's physician, Dr. John Polidori.
Brother of poet Christina Rossetti, painter and poet too, who was in the 1840s one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Rossetti's poems are distinguished by fantasy, leading the reader to times past, to medieval colour, Arthurian legend, and Dantesque mysticism.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /dgrosset.htm   (3190 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was an Italian poet and a political asylum seeker from Naples, and their mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830– December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as William Michael Rossetti and Maria Francesca Rossetti.
It was during this period of Rossetti's life that she, along with her mother and sister, became seriously invested in the Anglo-Catholic movement that was part of the Church of England, and this religious devotion played a major role in Rossetti's personal life for the rest of her life.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christina_Rossetti   (562 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was a political asylum seeker from Naples, and their mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Born in London and educated privately, she suffered ill-health in her youth, but was already writing poetry in her teens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christina_Rossetti   (244 words)

  
 NPG 990; Christina Georgina Rossetti; Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori)
Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori) (1800-1886), Mother of Dante Gabriel, William Michael and Christina Rossetti.
NPG 990; Christina Georgina Rossetti; Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori)
He was in acute pain and seriously depressed, and his mother Frances and his sister, the poet Christina Rossetti, went down to keep him company.
www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?search=ss&sText=rossetti&LinkID=mp03876&rNo=1&role=sit   (221 words)

  
 D.G. Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rosetti was born in London, the son of the poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori Rossetti, sister of Byron's physician, Dr. John Polidori.
Brother of poet Christina Rossetti, painter and poet too, who was in the 1840s one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Rossetti's poems are distinguished by fantasy, leading the reader to times past, to medieval colour, Arthurian legend, and Dantesque mysticism.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /dgrosset.htm   (839 words)

  
 Index to Biographies
Pan, Marta - Perugini, Charles Edward - Pesadori-Pechwell, Antonia Helene - Plessis, Alphonsine - Ploetz, Alfred - Polgar, Alfred - Polidori, Frances Mary Lavinia - Prinsep, Valentine - Prud'hon, Pierre-Paul -   (9 persons)
Boulanger, George Ernest Jean Marie  (1837-1891)  -  officer, statesman
Fantin-Latour, Ignace Henri Jean Théodore  (1836-1904)  -  painter, engraver, lithographer
www.xs4all.nl /~androom/biography/index_p.htm   (397 words)

  
 William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919), Critic and writer
The Rossetti Family (Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Christina Georgina Rossetti; Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori); William Michael Rossetti)
Dante Gabriel’s brother, and a civil servant from 1845, William Michael was a founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The online database contains information on 60,574 works, 40,288 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 320,000 works.
www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp03879   (397 words)

  
 Index to Biographies
Pan, Marta - Pankhurst, Emmeline - Perugini, Charles Edward - Pesadori-Pechwell, Antonia Helene - Plessis, Alphonsine - Ploetz, Alfred - Polgar, Alfred - Polidori, Frances Mary Lavinia - Prinsep, Valentine - Prud'hon, Pierre-Paul -   (10 persons)
Eastlake, Charles Lock - Eastlake, Elizabeth - Edwards, Edyth - Egg, Augustus Leopold - Elisabeth, Erzherzogin von Österreich - Elssler, Fanny - Erkel, Ferenc - Ernst, Max -   (8 persons)
Tarrasch, Siegbert - Terry, Ellen - Tree, Maud - Trelawny, Edward John - Trelawny, Zella - Turner, Thomas -   (6 persons)
www.xs4all.nl /~androom/biography/index_p.htm   (364 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gabriele Rossetti, was a political asylum seeker from Naples, and their mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister of
Born in London and educated privately, she suffered ill-health in her youth, but was already writing poetry in her teens.
Christina Rossetti  ( http://www.poetseers.org/the_great_poets/br/rossetti/) - Biography and Poems
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christina_Rossetti   (364 words)

  
 A Pre-Raphaelite Chronology
Maria Rossetti born to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti.
Gabriel Dante (Dante Gabriel) Rossetti born May 12.
Rossetti meets Jane Burden, an artist's model, and introduces her to the others, including Morris.
www.victorianweb.org /painting/prb/prbtl.html   (364 words)

  
 Biog
Christina Georgina Rossetti, one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England, was born in London December 5, 1830, to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti.
Christina was the youngest child of Gabriele Rossetti and was the sister of the painter-poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Christina Rossetti was the youngest of four children of Gabriele Rossetti, an Italian exile and Dante scholar.
www.geocities.com /englishresources/CRossetti/Biog.html   (364 words)

  
 The Life of Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti, one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England, was born in London December 5, 1830, to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti.
All three Rossetti women, at first devout members of the evangelical branch of the Church of England, were drawn toward the Tractarians in the 1840s.
When Professor Rossetti's failing health and eyesight forced him into retirement in 1853, Christina and her mother attempted to support the family by starting a day school, but had to give it up after a year or so.
www.victorianweb.org /authors/crossetti/rossettibio.html   (378 words)

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