The Byron Museum will once again be the focus of attention, this time in London. On Tuesday 27 January at 6:00 p.m., at the prestigious headquarters of the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgravia, in the elegant heart of the British capital not far from Westminster, the Italian Byron Society (President: Ernesto Giuseppe Alfieri) and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna, which owns the Byron Museum (President: Mirella Falconi Mazzotti), together with the Municipality of Ravenna and the Italian Cultural Institute in London, are promoting a major cultural event entitled “Byron: Love, Landscape, Poetry and History in the City of Mosaics.”
The event celebrates the first anniversary of the Byron Museum and will be attended by institutional authorities, journalists, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London, Francesco Bongarrà, representatives of London’s cultural and social circles, as well as experts and enthusiasts of literature from across the English-speaking world.
Following the institutional greetings by Mirella Falconi Mazzotti, Ernesto Giuseppe Alfieri, the Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Ravenna Fabio Sbaraglia, and the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London Francesco Bongarrà, the event will focus on a conversation between the two Vice Presidents of the Italian Byron Society—both university professors of English literature and Byron specialists—Diego Saglia and Gregory Dowling. Maria Grazia Marini, Head of the Tourism Department of the Municipality of Ravenna, will also be in attendance.
This event with British media and institutions echoes a similar occasion held one year ago, when a large group of correspondents and journalists, representing many of the leading British and international media outlets, celebrated Byron’s birthday with a guided tour of the Museum and an event in the Byron Tavern, concluding with a splendid birthday cake dedicated to the memory of the great English poet.
This is the second event involving the Byron Museum at the Italian Cultural Institute in London, following the Museum’s prominent role last July at the opening of the exhibition “Ancient Mosaics of Ravenna – The Collection of Copies,” also held in the prestigious building in Belgravia.
Ravenna, 11 January 2026
