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,Emilia Viviani and Shelley’s ‘Vita Nuova’: ,s verses ‘to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady, Emilia V —, Now Imprisoned in the Convent of —’. The ‘Lady’ to whom Shelley refers—the nineteen-year-old Florentine Contessina, Teresa (Emilia) Viviani della Robbia—had been confined by her father, the governor of Pisa, to the conservatory of St Anna,. wh

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Conclusion,ge of twenty nine, Wordsworth, who considered Shelley ‘one of the best . of all’, was just thinking of writing a preface to his .’(1970: 33). This statement serves the salutary purpose of putting Shelley’s achievement into perspective. Percy Bysshe Shelley was tragically drowned at an age when other

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Lerici and the Italian Visionary Epic: ,or weltered on that sea which was soon to engulf him’ (‘Note on Poems of 1822’, .: 677).. Although domestic conditions were inadequate, the climate and the serene isolation of Lerici so deeply contented Shelley that he expressed the desire to set up permanent residence there:

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Book 1991lores a neglected but essential component of his work. The poet‘s four years of self-exile in Italy (1818-1822) were, in fact, the most decisive of his career. As he responded to Italy, his poetry acquired a new subtlety and complexity of vision. Endowed with remarkably keen powers of absorption, th