He then married the housemaid; yet at the evening that she in her flip died, in 1817, it was once spotted that he went to the theater as traditional, and there have been many that believed that she too were helped by means of her husband to her grave. Teresa was once therefore his 3rd spouse. She used to be the daughter of 1 of his oldest neighbors, count number Ruggero Gamba Ghiselli. in keeping with Guiccioli’s personal grandson, the couple’s first meeting—which had taken position one night in Palazzo Gamba in Ravenna—had been anything lower than romantic. the sunshine being bad, the aged suitor had seized a candle and walked around and around his meant bride, “exactly as though he have been purchasing a bit of furnishings. ” there has been absolute confidence of the fanatics’ seeing one another back until eventually the Guicciolis lower back to Ravenna; Byron, as a minimum, was once in no hurry. He turns out to were really surprised—perhaps even a bit amused—at the intensity of his feeling for Teresa, yet he may possibly nonetheless see her objectively. On 24 April, a few ten days after her departure—while he used to be writing to her nearly day-by-day in his fluent if endearingly faulty Italian—he may speak in confidence his good friend Douglas Kinnaird: i've got fallen in love in the final month with a Romagnuola Countess from Ravenna, the wife of a yr of count number Guiccioli—who is sixty, the woman twenty. He has 80 thousand ducats of lease and has had better halves prior to; yet he's sixty. he's the 1st of Ravenna nobles; yet he's sixty. She is reasonable as sunrise—and hot as noon—we had yet ten days to control all our little issues in starting, heart and finish, & we controlled them. . . . She is a type of Italian Caroline Lamb, other than that she is far prettier, and never so savage. yet she has a similar red-hot head, an identical noble disdain of public opinion, with the superstructure of all that Italy can upload to such normal inclinations. Nor did his emotions for Teresa have the slightest impression on his lifestyle. On could 18 we discover him writing to Murray: In going, approximately an hour and a part in the past, to a rendezvous with a Venetian lady (unmarried and the daughter of 1 in their nobles), I tumbled into the Grand Canal, and, now not identifying to overlook my appointment via the delays of fixing, i've been perched in a balcony with my rainy outfits on ever considering that, until this minute on my go back i've got slipped into my dressing-gown. My foot slipped in entering into my Gondola to set out (owing to the cursed slippery steps in their palaces) and in I flounced like a Carp, and went dripping like a Triton to my Sea-nymph and needed to scramble as much as a Grated window “Fenced with iron inside and with no Lest the sweetheart get in, or the girl get out. ” Teresa replied all his letters; yet her replies have been imprecise, and left him by some means unhappy. It was once it slow prior to he came upon that her references to a fever actually mentioned a miscarriage—for which, in spite of the fact that, he knew that he had now not been dependable, given that she had confessed to him while their affair all started that she used to be already 3 months pregnant. (What he didn't be aware of was once that count number Guiccioli used to be not likely in charge both, Teresa having in simple terms six months after her marriage taken a prior lover: a definite count number Cristoforo Ferri, defined through person who knew him as “a licentious brazen satyr.