# Byron: The Last Phase

Author: Edgcumbe, Richard, 1843-1937

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41809

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Byron%3A+The+Last+Phase+Edgcumbe&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

'A large disagreeable city, almost without inhabitants'--such was the poet Shelley's description of Pisa in 1821. The Arno was yellow and muddy, the streets were empty, and there was altogether an air of poverty and wretchedness in the town. The convicts, who were very numerous, worked in the streets in gangs, cleaning and sweeping them. They were dressed in red, and were chained together by the leg in pairs. All day long one heard the slow clanking of their chains, and the rumbling of the carts they were forced to drag from place to place like so many beasts of burden. A spectator could not but be struck by the appearance of helpless misery stamped on their yellow cheeks and emaciated fo...

## Chapters

- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/13/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/byron-the-last-phase-41809/chapters/19/index.md)