When was the English poet on which Il corsaro was based born?
Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, politician, and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems, "Don Juan" and "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", and the short lyric poem, "She Walks in Beauty".
John Hughes (poet) John Hughes (born 29 January 1677 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, died of tuberculosis in London on 17 February 1720) was an English poet, essayist and translator. Various of his works remained in print for a century after his death, but if he is remembered at all today it is for the use others made of his work. Texts of his were set by the foremost composers of the day and his translation of the "Letters of Abelard and Heloise" was a major source for Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard".