The Three-Year-Old Buried at the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Whose Father Wrote Frankenstein's Other Half
William Shelley was the second child of Percy and Mary Shelley. He died of malaria at Rome on 7 June 1819, aged three years and four months. He is buried in the Protestant Cemetery, a few metres from Keats's grave and within sight of where his father's ashes would be interred three years later.
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