The Adventurer Who Cremated Shelley on an Italian Beach and Made the Mythology of It
Edward John Trelawny organised the August 1822 beach cremation of Percy Bysshe Shelley's drowned body at Viareggio. He kept Shelley's heart (rescued from the funeral pyre, supposedly) and spent the next sixty years substantially writing and substantially fabricating the canonical English version of the Shelley-Byron Italian Romantic decade.
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