Beppo

poem by Byron

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Beppo is a poem by Lord Byron, written in ottava rima. It satirically contrasts Italian and English manners through the story of a Venetian love triangle. Byron found the light, mock-heroic style of Beppo to be the perfect form for his greatest work, the epic satire Don Juan. While Don Juan is more widely known, Beppo was significant in helping Byron develop his mature satiric voice, moving away from the melancholy of earlier works like Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.123

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Lord Byron
Byron in Italy: Beppo and Don Juan
He also wrote Beppo, a poem in ottava rima that satirically contrasts Italian and English manners in the story of a Venetian ménage à trois. Back in Venice, Margarita Cogni, a baker’s wife, replaced Segati as his mistress, and his descriptions of the vagaries of this “gentle tigress”…
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He also wrote Beppo, a poem in ottava rima that satirically contrasts Italian and English manners in the story of a Venetian ménage à trois. Back in Venice, Margarita Cogni, a baker’s wife, replaced Segati as his mistress, and his descriptions of the vagaries of this “gentle tigress”…
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English literature
The later Romantics: Shelley, Keats, and Byron
…less portentous writings, such as Beppo (1818), in which he first used the ottava rima form. The easy, nonchalant, biting style developed there became a formidable device in Don Juan and in his satire on Southey, The Vision of Judgment (1822).
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…less portentous writings, such as Beppo (1818), in which he first used the ottava rima form. The easy, nonchalant, biting style developed there became a formidable device in Don Juan and in his satire on Southey, The Vision of Judgment (1822).
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