Society of Fellows alum Arden Hegele (2016–2019) writes in an introduction to the first complete English translations of eight letters written to Byron by his boyfriend Nicolas Giraud for The Paris Review. Arden is currently working on a new biography of Byron.

"Lord Byron’s bisexuality is well known—but Byron’s archive still has the power to surprise us with new evidence about this part of his private life. Here are the first full English translations of eight letters written to Byron by his boyfriend Nicolas Giraud, with whom Byron had a not-so-secret relationship in Athens in 1810 through 1811. Giraud’s letters have not been published in full before, partly because they are difficult to decipher—they are written in misspelled and ungrammatical Italian, English, and an antiquated Greek script—and partly because they trouble Byron’s legend as a great lover of women...."

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