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Johan Christoph von Schiller : Geisterseher

Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the staircase on which he was beheaded at the Doge's Palace, Venice: 'This was the thing that first struck my imagination in Venice ... more ... than Schiller's "Armenian" -- a novel which took great hold of me when a boy -- it is also called the "Ghost Seer" ..."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

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