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Villa Diodati

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Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland. It is best known for the summer of 1816, when Lord Byron rented the house and stayed there with Dr. John Polidori, and was frequently visited by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, later Mary Shelley, and Claire Clairmont, who were renting a house nearby. Confined indoors by poor weather in June 1816, the group spent several days telling each other ghost stories, an episode that produced two landmark works of Gothic fiction, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre, considered the first modern vampire story. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Building Type
Mansion 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Cologny, Switzerland 2
Completed Year
1710 1
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Standing Status
Standing 1
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Building Type (category)
Mansion 1
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1. Villa Diodati (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Diodati, lead definition
    The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with Dr. John Polidori in the summer of 1816.
  • Article text
    Despite the presence of a plaque at the Villa heralding a supposed visit of Milton in 1638, in fact the villa was not built until 1710, long after Milton's death.
  • Lead section
    The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with Dr. John Polidori in the summer of 1816.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (mansion)
    The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with Dr. John Polidori in the summer of 1816. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley's partner Mary Godwin (later Mary Shelley), and Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont, who had rented a house nearby, were frequent visitors. Because of poor weather, in June 1816 the
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2. Villa Diodati (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Cologny, Switzerland
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Cologny, Switzerland
Wikidata item Q670519, property P131/P17 (location): Cologny, Switzerland
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