The climax of all is stated to be that he forgave Lady Byron.

All the world knew that, since he had declared this fact in a very noisy and impassioned manner in the fourth canto of 'Childe Harold,' together with a statement of the wrongs which he forgave; but the Guiccioli thinks his virtue, at this period, has not been enough appreciated.

In her view, it rose to the sublime.

She says of Lady Byron,-- 'An absolute moral monstrosity, an anomaly in the history of types of female hideousness, had succeeded in showing itself in the light of magnanimity.

But false as was this high quality in Lady Byron, so did it shine out in him true and admirable.