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Nicolò Giraud (c.1795-?) is known for being the pederastic beloved of Lord Byron at the age of 15 or 16. He met the poet during the latter's stay in Athens, probably around 1810.
Byron and the boy spent a great deal of time together, riding and swimming at the Pireus every day. In a letter from August 23, 1810 to his good friend John Cam Hobhouse written at the Capuchin monastery of Mendele near Athens where he was residing, Byron states:
But my friend, as you may easily imagine, is Nicolò who by-the-by, is my Italian master, and we are already very philosophical. I am his 'Padrone' and his 'amico', and the Lord knows what besides. It is about two hours since, that, after informing me he was most desirous to follow him (that is me) over the world, he concluded by telling me it was proper for us not only to live, but 'morire insieme' . The latter I hope to avoid - as much of the former as he pleases.
Byron later saw to Giraud's education by paying for his schooling in a monastery on the island of Malta. He first left in his will left the boy the sum of 7000 pounds sterling, but later took him out of his will. (MacCarthy)
Notes
- Drummond Bone, The Cambridge Companion to Byron p.111