Dante Gabriel Rossetti Chronology

Created by Dino Franco Felluga on Wed, 05/16/2018 - 22:17

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"A sonnet is a moment's monument" Omnibus Edition

photo of DGR This chronology of significant events in (and surrounding) the life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti is designed to support a critical edition of the first sonnet of DGR's The House of LIfe, "A sonnet is a moment's monument."

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Date	Event	Created by
17 Mar 1805	Kingdom of Italy founded On 17 March 1805, the Kingdom of Italy is founded, with Napoleon Bonaparte as King. Image: The Iron Crown of Lombardy, from Cesare Cantù Grande illustrazione del Lombardo-Veneto ossia storia delle città, dei borghi, comuni, castelli, ecc. fino ai tempi moderni Milano, Corona e Caimi Editori, 1858. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. This crowning of Napoleon as King of Italy is a result of the French conquest of Italy. Napoleon was crowned King of Italy with the iron crown of Lombardy on 26 May 1805 (crown pictured above). His full title was "Emperor of the French and King of Italy." Articles Alison Chapman, "On Il Risorgimento" Related Articles Erik Simpson, "On Corinne, Or Italy" Marjorie Stone, “On the Post Office Espionage Scandal, 1844″	David Rettenmaier	Benjamin Robert Haydon, Napoléon Bonaparte (based on a version of 1830) Umbria Pisa Florence, Italy Ravenna The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Calabria Naples Gaeta Emilia-Romagna Rome, Italy Lombardy Turin Piedmont-Sardinia
26 May 1805	Napoleon made king of Italy On 26 May 1805, Napoleon crowns himself King of Italy in Milan Cathedral, with the iron crown of Lombardy. Image: The Iron Crown of Lombardy, from Cesare Cantù Grande illustrazione del Lombardo-Veneto ossia storia delle città, dei borghi, comuni, castelli, ecc. fino ai tempi moderni Milano, Corona e Caimi Editori, 1858. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. In a flamboyant and highly theatrical gesture, Napoleon Bonaparte signifies his political and military dominance over the Italian peninsula with a ceremony in Milan Cathedral, where he crowned himself King of Italy with the ancient, iconic iron crown of Lombardy. This crowning of Napoleon as King is a result of the French conquest of Italy. His full title was "Emperor of the French and King of Italy." Articles Alison Chapman, "On Il Risorgimento" Related Articles Erik Simpson, “On Corinne, Or Italy”	David Rettenmaier	Benjamin Robert Haydon, Napoléon Bonaparte (based on a version of 1830) Umbria Florence, Italy Ravenna The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Calabria Naples Gaeta Emilia-Romagna Lombardy Turin Piedmont-Sardinia
12 May 1828	Birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Albumen print of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (7 October 1863) On 12 May 1828, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born as Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti. His parents were Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti, an Italian émigré scholar, and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori (the sister of John William Polidori). Rossetti would go on to form the influential literary and artistic group, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Image: Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: albumen print. This photograph, from 7 October 1863, was reproduced as the frontispiece of: Rossetti, William Michael, Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer. London: Cassell and Company, 1898.	Dino Franco Felluga	Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sonnet (1880, illustration) Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Illustrations for Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862)
1 Feb 1848	Tuscan uprising Tuscan patriotic upraising against Austrian Duke (February 1848), which led to a short-lived constitution. Image: An image of non-unified Italy (1815-1870), William Shepherd, Historical Atlas (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. To supporters of Italian independence, the short-lived uprising in Tuscany, leading to a new constitution as well as freedom of the press and of religious practice, seemed to be the first step to overthrowing foreign rulers Articles Alison Chapman, "On Il Risorgimento" Articles Marjorie Stone, “On the Post Office Espionage Scandal, 1844″	David Rettenmaier	Tuscany Umbria Pisa Florence, Italy Lombardy Turin Piedmont-Sardinia
Sep 1848	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded In September 1848, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The brotherhood reacts, in part, against the use of bitumen, a transparent brown used for depicting exaggerated shadows, aiming instead to reproduce the sharp, brilliant colors found in fifteenth-century art. Image: Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: albumen print. This photograph, from 7 October 1863, was reproduced as the frontispiece of: Rossetti, William Michael, Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer. London: Cassell and Company, 1898. Related Articles Elizabeth Helsinger, “Lyric Poetry and the Event of Poems, 1870″ Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, “The Moxon Tennyson as Textual Event: 1857, Wood Engraving, and Visual Culture” Morna O’Neill, “On Walter Crane and the Aims of Decorative Art” Linda M. Shires, "On Color Theory, 1835: George Field’s Chromatography" Linda M. Shires, “Color Theory—Charles Lock Eastlake’s 1840 Translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours)”	David Rettenmaier	Leighton House Middleton Cheney Selsley Goblin Market and Other Poems, Cover Design The Prisoner of Chillon, Illustration in Poets of the Nineteenth Century Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Illustrations for Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862) Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Interpretation of "The Lady of Shalott"
9 Feb 1849 to Jul 1849	Roman Republic The Roman Republic existed from 9 February 1849 to 3 July 1849. The Republic was established after Pope Pius IX fled to Gaeta to the protection of King Ferdinand II of Naples, following the assassination of the papal Minister of Justice. Image: Lithograph of 'Proclamazione delle Repubblica Romana', 1849 (published in 1861). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Articles Alison Chapman, "On Il Risorgimento" Related Articles Marjorie Stone, “On the Post Office Espionage Scandal, 1844″ Erik Simpson, “On Corinne, Or Italy″	David Rettenmaier	Gaeta Umbria Pisa Florence, Italy Calabria Naples Rome, Italy Lombardy Turin Piedmont-Sardinia Urbania
Dec 1849	Siddal "discovered" by Walter Deverell Elizabeth Siddal Self-Portrait (c. 1853-54) In December 1849, Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Siddal was "discovered" by Walter Deverell, a Pre-Raphaelite painter, while she was working as a milliner in Cranbourne Alley, She went on to become a model for other Pre-Raphaelite artists and eventually married Dante Gabriel Rossetti. London. Image: Elizabeth Siddal self-portrait. This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.	Jerome McGann	Cranbourne Alley Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix (1864-1870) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1861) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Head of Elizabeth Siddal (1855)
Feb 1850	“The Blessed Damozel” In February 1850, publication of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel.” Image: The Blessed Damozel, oil on canvas, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University. Completed c. 1871-78. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Related Articles Jill Galvan, “Tennyson’s Ghosts: The Psychical Research Case of the Cross-Correspondences, 1901-c.1936″	David Rettenmaier
13 Jan 1851	Dante Gabriel Rossetti moves to 17 Red Lion Square 17 Red Lion Square, London On 13 January 1851, Dante Gabriel Rossetti moved to 17 Red Lion Square with Walter Deverell. He lived there briefly until moving to 14 Chatham Place in November of 1852. Image: Courtesy of The Victorian Web.	Jerome McGann	17 Red Lion Square
Nov 1852	Dante Gabriel Rossetti moves to 14 Chatham Place 14 Chatham Place In November of 1852, Dante Gabriel Rossetti moved to 14 Chatham Place, Blackfriar's. Image, courtesy of the British Library, described on the BL website as follows: "Inscribed and dated: 'G. P. Boyce. April. 26. 1866' Verso of the mount. . . [,] a label on which is inscribed in Boyce's hand 'Backs of some old houses in Soho. . . , 14 Chatham Place, Blackfriars."	Dino Franco Felluga	14 Chatham Place
Apr 1854	Rossetti family moves to Albany St. In April 1854, the Rossetti family moved to 45 Upper Albany St. (now 166 Albany St.) in London.	Dino Franco Felluga	166 Albany St. (formerly 45 Upper Albany St.)
26 Apr 1854	Death of Gabriele Rossetti Gabriele Rossetti Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti (father of Dante Gabriel, Christina Georgina, William Michael and Maria Francesca Rossetti) died on 26 April 1854 at 45 Upper Albany St. (now 166 Albany St.).	Dino Franco Felluga	166 Albany St. (formerly 45 Upper Albany St.) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sonnet (1880, illustration)
25 May 1857 to 25 Jun 1857	Pre-Raphaelite Art Exhibit Pre-Raphaelite Art Exhibit, Russell Square, London, from 25 May to 25 June 1857. This was the first exhibition devoted solely to the work of the Pre-Raphaelites. Image: Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: albumen print. This photograph, from 7 October 1863, was reproduced as the frontispiece of: Rossetti, William Michael, Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer. London: Cassell and Company, 1898. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Related Articles Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, “The Moxon Tennyson as Textual Event: 1857, Wood Engraving, and Visual Culture”	David Rettenmaier	Russell Square, London Leighton House Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Interpretation of "The Lady of Shalott"
24 Jun 1859	Battle of Solferino Battle of Solferino on 24 June 1859: On this date, the French defeat Austria at Solferino, forcing a full retreat of the Austrians from Lombardy in Northern Italy. Image: Luigi Norfini, Battaglia di San Martino (c. 1860s). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Articles Alison Chapman, "On Il Risorgimento" Related Articles Marjorie Stone, “On the Post Office Espionage Scandal, 1844″	David Rettenmaier	Solferino Umbria Ravenna Lombardy Turin
1 Feb 1861	Italy is united On February 1861, Vittorio Emanuele II of Piedmont is crowned king of Italy: Italy is formally united, with Turin as the capital city. Image: Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoia (c. 1840s-1850s), Museo nazionale del Risorgimento, Torino (author unknown). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Articles Alison Chapman, "On Il Risorgimento" Related Articles Marjorie Stone, “On the Post Office Espionage Scandal, 1844″	David Rettenmaier	Turin Umbria Pisa Florence, Italy Ravenna The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Calabria Naples Gaeta Emilia-Romagna Rome, Italy Lombardy Piedmont-Sardinia Urbania Modena Bologna Parma
11 Feb 1862	Death of Elizabeth Siddal Elizabeth Siddal Self-Portrait (c. 1853-54) Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (formerly Elizabeth Siddal) died of a laudanum overdose at 7:20 a.m. on 11 February 1862 at 14 Chatham Place. Image: Elizabeth Siddal self-portrait. This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.	Dino Franco Felluga	14 Chatham Place Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix (1864-1870) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1861) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Head of Elizabeth Siddal (1855)
17 Feb 1862	Burial of Elizabeth Siddal The Rossetti Family Grave, Highgate Western Cemetary Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (formerly Elizabeth Siddal) was buried on 17 February 1862 in Highgate Western Cemetary in the Rossetti family plot. Dante Gabriel Rossetti placed "Dante at Verona," "Love's Nocturne" and other manuscript poems in her coffin before interment. Image: the Rossetti family grave where Elizabeth Siddal is buried (courtesy of The Victorian Web).	Dino Franco Felluga	Highgate Cemetary Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix (1864-1870) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1861) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Head of Elizabeth Siddal (1855)
24 Oct 1862	Dante Gabriel Rossetti moves to 16 Cheyne Walk 16 Cheyne Walk, London On 24 October 1862, Dante Gabriel Rossetti moved to 16 Cheyne Walk, London, where he lived for the next twenty years. Image of 16 Cheyne Walk from Wikipedia Commons is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.	Dino Franco Felluga	16 Cheyne Walk
14 Jun 1866 to 2 Aug 1866	Austro-Prussian War Austro-Prussian War (also known as the Third Italian Independence War or the Seven Weeks’ War), was fought from 14 June 1866 to 23 August 1866, after which Italy gains Venice from Austria. Image: The Battle of Königgrätz, by Georg Bleibtreu. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Articles Alison Chapman, "On Il Risorgimento" Related Articles Marjorie Stone, “On the Post Office Espionage Scandal, 1844″	David Rettenmaier	Umbria Venice Prague Schönbrunn Palace Lombardy Frankfurt
10 Oct 1869	Exhumation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's manuscripts Manuscript of "Praise and Prayer" exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave On 10 October 1869, Dante Gabriel Rossetti had the manuscripts that he had previously buried with Elizabeth Siddal exhumed. Image: "Praise and Prayer" manuscript, one of three surviving leaves from the manuscripts Rossetti buried with his wife on 17 February 1862 in Highgate Cemetary. The original is in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (MS Eng 769).	Jerome McGann	Highgate Cemetary Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix (1864-1870) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1861) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Head of Elizabeth Siddal (1855)
Apr 1870	Rossetti, Poems In April 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published his first volume of original poetry, marking the start of several decades of renewed lyric experimentation by younger poets like Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Morris, Christina Rossetti, George Meredith, and Gerard Manly Hopkins. Image: Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: albumen print, 7 October 1863. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Articles Elizabeth Helsinger, “Lyric Poetry and the Event of Poems, 1870″	David Rettenmaier	Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sibylla Palmifera (painting), 1866-70 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith (painting), 1868
19 Jul 1870 to 10 May 1871	Franco-Prussian War The Franco-Prussian War was fought from 19 July 1870 to 10 May 1871. The war ended with the defeat of Napoleon III and the unification of Germany; Italy gained the Papal States and Rome became the capital of Italy. Image: Frederick Barnard, "Discussing the War in a Paris Café" - a scene from the brief interim between the Battle of Sedan and Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, published in The Illustrated London News, 17 September 1870. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Articles Alison Chapman, "On Il Risorgimento" Related Articles Marjorie Stone, “On the Post Office Espionage Scandal, 1844″	David Rettenmaier	Umbria Amiens Ravenna Lombardy Urbania
2 Oct 1870	Rome annexed to Italy Plebiscite annexes Rome and Latium to the Kingdom of Italy, 2 October 1870. This event marks the final phase of the unification of Italy. Articles Alison Chapman, "On Il Risorgimento" Related Articles Marjorie Stone, “On the Post Office Espionage Scandal, 1844″	David Rettenmaier	Rome, Italy Umbria Ravenna The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Calabria Naples Gaeta Lombardy Turin Piedmont-Sardinia
1871 to 1873	Dark Blue journal run From March 1871 to March 1873, the journal, Dark Blue, was published monthly in Great Britain. Dark Blue (1871–73) was a monthly magazine, edited by Oxford undergraduate John Christian Freund, which folded two years after a brilliant debut. During its brief run, it brought together a stunning list of literary and artistic contributors, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A. C. Swinburne, William Morris, Andrew Lang, Mathilde Blind, Sheridan Le Fanu, Simeon Solomon, and Ford Madox Brown, who produced aesthetically and sexually daring poetry, art, and criticism. Articles Anna Maria Jones, “On the Publication of Dark Blue, 1871-73″	David Rettenmaier	Oxford, England
1875	Morris & Co. founded In Mar 1875, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company was dissolved and re-established as Morris and Company. Image: Photograph of William Morris, aged 53. First published 1899 (photo by Frederick Hollyer c. 1887). From Google Books edition of J. W. Mackail The Life of William Morris in two volumes, London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Related Articles Ayla Lepine, “On the Founding of Watts & Co., 1874″	David Rettenmaier	Queen Square, Bloomsbury Merton Abbey Mills Hammersmith Leek Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Illustrations for Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862)
27 Apr 1880	Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori Rossetti's 80th Birthday Chalk Drawing by DGR of Frances and Christina Rossetti, 1877. On April 27 1880 Frances Rossetti turned eighty. In honour of her birthday, Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) gave her a copy of David Main's Treasury of English Sonnets (1880). They personalized their gift by contributing a hand-written sonnet each. DGR designed his illuminated “A Sonnet is a moment’s monument” to fit the dimensions of the book and memorialized the moment of the gift in the lower left corner of the manuscript: "DG Rossetti pro Matre facit Apr: 27: 1880" (DG Rossetti made this for his Mother April 27 1880). While DGR’s sonnet was laid in to the front of the Treasury of English Sonnets, CGR placed her hand-written offering, “Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome…” at the back of the book. In this format, the Rossetti siblings' pair of sonnets effectively became the "Alpha and Omega" of this national collection, commenting on the long tradition of sonnets circulating in manuscript and print for private/public expressions of love, ambition, rivalry, and loss.	Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
16 Sep 1881	Publication of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Ballads and Sonnets Binding of Ballads and Sonnets (1881) On 16 September 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published Ballads and Sonnets (London: Ellis and White, 1881) along with a new edition of his Poems. Originally Rossetti intended to publish only one book of his works in 1881, a revised and augmented edition of his 1870 Poems. (On the 1870 volume, see Elizabeth Helsinger, “Lyric Poetry and the Event of Poems, 1870.″) In working over his materials, however, Rossetti soon realized that he had more poems than could be accommodated to a single volume, so he devised the scheme that eventuated in the publication of Ballads and Sonnets and its companion, A New Edition (so identified on the title page) of Poems. Ballads and Sonnets included an expanded set of poems with the title, "The House of Life," now prefaced with an "Introductory Sonnet" with the first line, "A Sonnet is a moment's monument." Image: courtesy of The Rossetti Archive.	Jerome McGann
9 Apr 1882	Death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti died on 9 April 1882 (Easter Sunday) at Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, where he was also buried at All Saints' Church. Image: Birchington All Saints Church from the southwest (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license).	Dino Franco Felluga	Birchington-on-Sea, Kent Kent Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Illustrations for Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862)
circa. Winter 1882	Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Record and a Study published DGR’s illuminated sonnet was first published as the frontispiece to William Sharp’s biography of the poet-painter, brought out by Macmillan in the year of the poet’s death. In a letter to her brother William dated 26 July 1882, Christina Rossetti reported that their mother, Frances, had loaned “her cherished Main’s Sonnet book, giving him leave to have the ‘Sonnet’ drawing engraved for his book” (Letters of Christina Rossetti vol 3, p. 52).	Lorraine Janzen Kooistra