08 July 2022
Percy Bysshe Shelley
On 8 July 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the greatest British Romantic poets, died in Viareggio. Shelley was a great friend of Lord Byron and John Keats, ...
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08 July 2022
Percy Bysshe Shelley
On 8 July 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the greatest British Romantic poets, died in Viareggio. Shelley was a great friend of Lord Byron and John Keats, as well as the husband of writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. The poet, who lived in Italy with his family for four years – in Venice, Livorno, Lucca, Este, Rome, Naples, Pisa and Florence – was considered a minor author for a long time and was rediscovered only in the second half of the 19th century. His most renowned works include “Prometheus unbound”, “Adonais”, “Ozymandias” and “Ode to the West Wind”.