She has him disguised as a girl and smuggled into her chambers. The lovely Gulbayaz, member of the Sultan’s harem, arranges for Don Juan’s purchase. Lambro’s men find both Haidee and Don Juan, who is captured and sold into slavery. Don Alfonso, Donna Julia’s husband, discovers the affair and Don Juan is sent to Cadiz.Įn route to Cadiz, Don Juan is shipwrecked, the only survivor of the vessel, and left alone until he encounters Haidee, daughter of the pirate Lambro. The child of Donna Inez and Don Jose of Seville, Don Juan is sexually precocious, having an affair with his mother’s best friend, Donna Julia. The narrative then begins with the birth of Don Juan. The narrator distances himself from these “great” men by insisting that his own muse is of a lesser nature, and so his verse will be lesser as well. Don Juan begins with a dedication to Robert Southey and William Wordsworth-both famous poets of the time, whom Byron lampoons here.
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