In her study of the relationship between Byron's lifelong interest in historical matters and the development of history as a discipline, Carla PomarA] focuses on drama (the Venetian plays, The Deformed Transformed), verse narrative (The Siege of Corinth, Mazeppa) and dramatic monologue (The Prophecy of Dante), calling attention to their interaction with historiographical and pseudo-historiographical texts ranging from monographs to dictionaries, collections of apophthegms, autobiographies and prophecies. This variety of discourses, PomarA] suggests, not only served as a source of the...