George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), was a British politician and poet considered one of the greatest exponents of the romantic movement. Among his well-known works are the long narrative poems Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyrics She Walks in Beauty. Very famous, flamboyant but also controversial for his customs in his time, he was a close friend of Percy Shelley and his wife Mary Shelley, and father of the daughter he had with the latter's half-sister, Allegra. He is also the father of Ada Lovelace. He traveled extensively in Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in Venice, Ravenna and Pisa. He joined the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire and he died at the age of 36 from a fever contracted in Missolonghi