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Beppo ( 1817 ) is something of an anomaly in this chapter . Based on a comic anecdote Byron heard at La Mira , it is obviously a tale — one deriving from gossip , not history or legend . Further , as English appropriation of Italian ...
Apparently written in two days , October 9 and 10 , Beppo went off to Murray with instructions that “ it won't do for your journal [ i.e. , the Tory Quarterly Review ] being full of political allusions — print alone — without name ...
It turns out that Beppo was cast away near the ruins of Troy and enslaved until he escaped to a career of piracy and thereby enriched himself until he felt inclined to come home with his ill - gotten gains , passed off as the profits of ...