George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet, a leading figure in the Romantic movement and one of the most famous poets of the English 1. He was also a satirist whose poetry and personality soon captured the interest and the imagination of Europe. Byron was as famous in his lifetime for his personality cult as for his poetry. He created the concept of the “Byronic hero”, a defiant, melancholy young man, brooding on some mysterious, unforgivable event in his past. Byron's 2 on European poetry, music, novel, opera and painting has been 3, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries. In 1816, Byron visited Swaint Lazarus Island in Venice, where he studied Armenian 4 with the help of the abbots belonging to the Mechitarist Order. There he learned the Armenian language, and 5 many seminars about language and history.