Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of Dante, A Poem

by Lord Byron, George Gordon

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First edition

First edition, first issue Doge’s speech at p. 151 is only 5-1/2 lines . xxi, 261, 262, imprint , 2, ads, recto blank 4 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Later boards, untrimmed. Wise, Byron II, pp. 29-30. Item #352119 Written in Ravenna the year before another of Lord Byron's plays based on the lives of past doges, The Two Foscari, and published in the same year, Marino Faliero was set in Venice in 1355.

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