The first to have access to the Gamba Papers, Origo mined this family archive to tell the story of Byron’s last love affair, a domestic triangle consisting of the poet, his nineteen year old mistress, Countess Guiccioli, and her husband. Origo here chronicles a love triangle among the poet, Countess Teresa Gamba Guiccioli, and the lady's much older husband, who apparently wasn't too happy about sharing his 19-year-old wife. Origo was the first to have access to the Gamba family's archive, so much of this 1949 biography was new material when first published by Scribner. It's probably still the most in-depth study of this particular chapter in the poet's unusual life. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Iris Origo, born in America of Anglo-Irish background, moved to Italy as a child. In 1924 she married Antonio Origo, and Italian nobleman; during the German occupation of World War II, they secretly hid Allied prisoners of war. She wrote many books of history, biography, and memoirs.