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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1. Villa Diodati (Wikipedia)
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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.
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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.
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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
View the Source2. Villa Diodati (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Cologny, SwitzerlandQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Cologny, Switzerland
Wikidata item Q670519, property P131/P17 (location): Cologny, Switzerland
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