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Dudu Roque, daughter of Phokion Roque,a French merchant living in Athens. Byron later used her name for the innocent buxom odalisque, whose bed Don Juan shared in the
harem. BLJ 2-13n

Hobhouse to Byron 1810-08-23 and 1810-12-10. See BB, p. 64

Byron's new "Tartar" at the Capuchin Convent

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-08-23. Byron wrote a Latin epigraph which was engraved on a stone placed over his body in the Theseum. BLJ II-13n

See 1809-06-22 to Matthews and 1811-11-02 to Hobhouse for references to "hyacinths." BLJ II-14n

Roman Emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD

A town in the English county of Suffolk from where ChMatthews writes JoHobhouse in 1809-09-25

Named as visited by Byron in 1810-09-25 to Hobhouse.

Named as visited by Byron to JoHobhouse 1810-09-25. A seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf. During the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period, under Venetian domination,…

Named as visited by Byron in 1810-09-25 to JoHobhouse. A city in ancient Greece that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history. "Mantinea was an ancient town in Arcadia not far from the modern Tripolis (Tripolitza). The…