Wednesday, December 06, 2023

 

Misquoting Byron

John Last, "The tiny Italian town that drinks like Ancient Rome and Greece," BBC (December 6, 2023):
Arquà Petrarca, as it has since been renamed, is still a small town of barely 2,000 residents — a "soft, quiet hamlet… in the deep umbridge of a green hill's shade", to quote Lord Byron, who visited the town on the Grand Tour.
Hat tip: Eric Thomson, who remarks: "Byron would take umbrage at 'umbridge'."

Related post: Umbrance.

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