Die Villa war von Lord Byron gemietet worden, da er (irrtümlich) glaubte dass John Milton 1638 dort die Familie dessen kurz davor verstorbenen Jugendfreundes Charles Diodati besucht hätte. ###>The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with John Polidori in the summer of 1816.