This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII THE BURNING OF SHELLEY'S BODY Viareggio is perhaps chiefly interesting to Englishmen because here the body of Shelley was washed up on July 18, 1822. The town has sought to do him honour. The Piazza Paolina has become the Piazza Shelley (does his spirit triumph, I wonder, at having ousted ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII THE BURNING OF SHELLEY'S BODY Viareggio is perhaps chiefly interesting to Englishmen because here the body of Shelley was washed up on July 18, 1822. The town has sought to do him honour. The Piazza Paolina has become the Piazza Shelley (does his spirit triumph, I wonder, at having ousted the sister of a tyrant?), and in the centre of it stands a creditable bust of the poet, placed there with some ceremony in 1894. It interests me beyond measure to find myself contributing to a book which contains a picture of the spot where his body was washed up. After long residence in Tuscany, with a certain knowledge of the history, of the laws past and present, of the official life, old and new, of the country; familiar, too, as I am with the topography of the place, I have been led to notice that the English accounts of Shelley's death and burial and cremation leave a good deal to be desired in clearness and accuracy. Will the reader bear with me, I wonder, will he not think it out of place, if I take this opportunity of re-stating some points of the tragic event? Shelley started from Leghorn for San Terenzo on July 8, under circumstances well known, with Captain Williams and a sailor lad called Charles Vivian. It is interesting to note, what I have seen for myself, that Shelley's boat was cleared from Leghorn as the Don Juan. Originally she was part-owned by Trelawny, Williams, and Shelley, but before being launched, Shelley had become sole owner at a cost of;8o.f Trelawny had christened her the Don Juan, which was distasteful to Shelley, who re-named her the Ariel. But Byron had written to Captain Daniel Roberts, who was superintending her building at Genoa, to have the name Don Juan painted on the mainsail. And "thus...
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Very Good. Bound in publisher's textured cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xxi, 328 p., [32] color plates. First edition, November 1904; second edition, December 1904; reprinted, June 1905;
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Very good. First edition without jacket on brown relief cloth illustrated by shell and fler de lisle designs will send out 1 st class post-rare and collectable.
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