Real People
Real people figuring in the novel include:
- George Gordon, Lord Byron and his involvement in the Carbonari
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Mary Shelley, her novel Frankenstein, and her stepsister Claire Clairmont
- John Keats and his poem "Lamia"
- John Polidori (Powers does not mention his influential story "The Vampyre")
- Leigh Hunt
- François Villon
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