Abstract
Byron was often defensive in acknowledging works from which he borrowed or by which he had been influenced when writing Don Juan. He only admitted taking material from Sir John Dalyell's Shipwrecks and Disasters at Seawhen faced with incontrovertible evidence that he had done so, and the embarrassment forced from him the confession that he was also indebted to 'Tully's Tripoli'.1 In the Preface to Cantos VI, VII and VIII ofDon Juan he drew attention to his borrowing from Castelnau's Histoire de la Nouvelle Russie, perhaps to forestall discovery of another 'plagiarism'.2 But he was especially sensitive about the influence on Don Juan of the Novelle Galanti ofGiambattista Casti.3 Thomas Medwin records the following, from late 1821 or early 1822:
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