4. Williams, op. cit., p. 145.
5. Mary, No. 139, p. 169.
6. Letters, II, No. 701, p. 413.
7. Williams, op. cit., p. 146.
8. ibid.
9. Letters, II, No. 703, p. 416.
10. ibid.
11. Williams, op. cit., p. 149.
12. ibid., p. 147.
13. ibid.
14. Letters, II, No. 705, p. 419.
15. Williams, op. cit., p. 149.
16. Letters, II, No. 707, p. 421.
17. Mary, No. 139, p. 171.
18. Letters, II, No. 708, p. 423.
19. ibid., p. 425 n. 3.
20. Letters, II, No. 711, p. 430.
21. ibid., No. 709, p. 427.
22. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. C. 4, F5.
23. Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’, ed. Donald H. Reiman, University of Illinois Press, 1965, p. 160; compare Poetical Works, pp. 511–12.
24. Reiman, op. cit., pp. 138–40; compare Poetical Works, p. 508.
25. Reiman, op. cit., pp. 150–8; compare Poetical Works, pp. 510–11. Third and ninth stanzas from Posthumous Poems (1824).
26. Reiman, op. cit., p. 164; compare Poetical Works, p. 512.
27. Reiman, op. cit., pp. 191–2; compare Poetical Works, p. 517.
28. Reiman, op. cit., pp. 206–10; compare Poetical Works, pp. 519–20. Punctuation of last thirteen lines from Posthumous Poems (1824).
29. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. c. 4. F5, p. 52. This reading was first identified by G. M. Matthews in ‘The Triumph of Life: A New Text’, Studia Neophilologica, XXXII, 1960.
30. Letters, II, No. 710, p. 429.
31. Mary, No. 144, p. 179.
32. ibid., p. 179.
33. Letters, II, No. 715, p. 434.
34. Mary, No. 144, p. 181.
35. Letters, II, No. 714, p. 433.
36. ibid., No. 715, pp. 435–6.
37. ibid., No. 715A, p. 437.
38. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. C. 4. Folder 35–6. Poetical Works, p. 674.
39. Mary, No. 144, p. 181.
40. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 18.
41. ibid., p. 118 rev.
42. ibid., p. 160 rev.
43. Williams, op. cit., p. 155.
44. ibid.
45. Mary, No. 144, p. 180.
46. Letters, II, No. 718, p. 440.
47. Mary, No. 144, p. 180.
48. Williams, op. cit., p. 155.
49. MS in Keats Shelley Memorial Association Collection, Rome. Letters, II, No. 719, pp. 442–3.
50. Williams, op. cit., p. 156.
51. Mary, No. 140, p. 172.
52. Letters, II, No. 720, p. 444.
53. Williams, op. cit., p. 162.
54. Letters, II, No. 720, p. 444.
55. ibid., No. 721, p. 445.
56. A report given to Taaffe and retold in conversation: The Journal of Clarissa Trant (1925), pp. 198–9, dating from 1826. There were, inevitably, numerous subsequent versions of the sinking which already had achieved a kind of mythic significance even before it occurred. The variations are discussed in the letters of Mary, Trelawny, Captain Roberts and in Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, II, pp. 534–6. The main point of contention lies in whether the damage to the mainmasts and stern timbers was caused by manhandling during the salvage operation or by collision with a felucca. But Mary’s original letter to Maria Gisborne of 15 August 1822 underwrites Taaffe’s account: ‘A Fishing boat saw them go down — It was about 4 in the afternoon — they saw the boy at mast head when baffling winds struck the sails they had looked away a moment & looking again the boat was gone.’
Index
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Aberystwyth, 75, 76, 133–4
Academical Questions, Sir William Drummond, 298 & n.
Act of Union (Ireland), 120, 123, 125
Adeline Mowbray, or the Mother and Daughter, Amelia Opie, 76
Adolphus, John, 274
The Adventures of a Younger Son, E. J. Trelawny, 731
Aeschylus, 182, 267, 297, 302, 311, 415, 444, 491, 494, 495, 496, 497, 499, 500, 505, 677
Agathon, 430, 435, 436
The Age of Reason, Tom Paine, 144, 556
Aglietti, Dr, 446
Aimée (first illegitimate daughter of Elise Foggi), 415
Ajax, Sophocles, 424
Albion House, see Marlow
Alceibiades, 430–1
Alps, 240, 323, 339–41, 381, 414, 415, 601
‘Al under the wyllowe tree’, Thomas Chatterton, 649
America, xi–xii, 9–10
America: A Prophecy, William Blake, 8
Amory (solicitor), 223, 225, 253, 256
Amos, Andrew, 24
‘The Ancient Mariner’, S. T. Coleridge, 30, 257, 332, 425
Answer to Malthus, William Godwin, 168, 600
Answer to Queen Mab (Pamphlet), 210
Apennines, 422, 424, 426, 427, 428, 523, 528, 572, 652
Apollodorus, 430 n.
An Apologic for Poetrie, Sir Philip Sidney, 642
‘The Apostles’ (Cambridge), 38
Archimedes, 200
Arch of Constantine (Roman Forum), 488, 503–4, 718
Arch of Titus (Roman Forum), 488, 718
Argyropoli, Prince, 624, 677
Ariel, André Maurois, 21 n.
Ariosto, 426, 446 458–9
Aristophanes, 426, 434, 435, 436, 609, 610
Aristotle, 39, 64
Arno river, 572, 573, 602, 620, 640, 647, 650, 673, 677, 682, 685, 688, 702–3, 704, 713
Arnold, Matthew, 554, 584
Arte of Englishe Poesie, George Puttenham, 585
Associations for the Prosecution of Felons (Caernarvonshire), 187
The Aspern Papers, Henry James, 733
Assassins (Ismaeli sect), 243 & n.; see also Shelley: Prose Works
Aurora Borealis, 660
Autobiography, Leigh Hunt, 733
‘The Bacchus and Ampelus’ statue, 15, 566
Bacon, Francis, 50, 202, 307, 432, 584
Bagnacavallo convent, 702; Allegra moved by Byron to, 640–1, 649, 655; and Shelley’s visit, 670–1; Claire’s plan to kidnap Allegra from, 709; death of Allegra, n., 712, 713
Bagni di Lucca, 379, 517, 572, 577, 596, 600; Shelleys’ stay at Casa Bertini in, 424, 426–30, 431, 439, 440, 443, 472, 605
Bagni di Pisa (San Giuliano), 647; Shelleys’ stay at Casa Prinni (1820), 466, 601, 602–16; and in 1821, 650–81
Baillie, Joanna, 8, 274
Baldwin, William, 209
Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy (publishers), 309, 598
Ballechy (money-lender), 254, 266, 269
Bamford, Samuel, 151 & n., 349, 364, 384, 530, 531, 541
Barnstaple, 146, 147, 148, 154; Dan Healy’s arrest and imprisonment in, 158, 187; and Mayor’s investigation into Shelley’s activities, 158–60
Barruel, Abbé Augustin, 53, 126–7 &n., 242, 243, 261
Bath, Shelleys’ stay at 5 Abbey Churchyard in (1816), 346, 347–50, 352
Baths of Caracalla (Termi di Caracalla), Rome, 485, 487, 489–90, 505, 506, 542
Baxter family, 170, 171, 226, 383
Baxter, William, 388
Beauclerc, Lady Diana, 374
Beaumaris meeting (North Wales), 166–7, 172
Beaumont, Francis, 426
Bedford, Grosvenor, 99
Bedwell, John, 167 n., 168
Bell, Dr J., 464 n., 486, 512, 513, 517–18
Benbow (publisher), 209 n., 660
Bentham, Jeremy, 380, 586 n., 591, 593
Beppo, Byron, 420 & n., 449
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Bergondi, Andrea, 605
Berkeley, George, 101, 152
Berkshire, Shelley’s holiday with Mary at Salt Hill (April 1815), 281–2
Best, Mr Justice, 539
Bethel, Dr, 19, 24
Bion, 656
Bisham Woods (near Marlow), 368, 369, 370, 373, 374, 409, 489
Bishopsgate (Berkshire), 338, 343; Shelley’s and Mary’s stay in (1815), 290–315
Black Dwarf, 364, 365, 371, 590 n.
Blackwood’s Magazine, 393, 692; review of The Revolt of Islam in, 404–5, 568; and of Prometheus Unbound, 510 n.
Blake, William, 8, 261
Blasphemous Libel, see Libel
Blue Book, 586 n.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 514, 517, 538, 609
Boinville, Cornelia (Mrs Turner), 233, 236, 250, 257, 270, 314, 474, 510, 527, 581, 632; Shelley family stay at Bracknell with, 216–17, 218, 219; Shelley leaves Harriet and stays with, 224–5, 226–8, 239; and his passing passion for, 227–8
Bojti, Dr, and family, 615–16, 621
Bolivar (Byron’s schooner), 696, 704, 717, 724, 725, 728, 731
Bologna, 422, 459, 663–4
Bonivard, François, 335–6
Booth, David, 388
Borghese, Princess Paulina, 518
Borghese Gardens, Villa (Rome), 485, 486, 487, 510–11, 566
Bracknell, Berkshire (Mrs Boinville’s house, High Elms, in), Shelleys’ stay in, 216–19; and Harriet, Eliza and Peacock return to, 223; Shelley leaves Harriet and moves to, 224–5, 226–8, 229, 239
Brandreth, Jeremiah, 401; trial and execution of (1817), 384–6
Bristol Pantisocracy, 8
British Critic, 30, 34 n.; review of Alastor in, 309; and attack on Shelley, 404
British Gazette, 660
British Museum, Egyptian antiquities in, 410
Brook (publisher), 209
Brookes & Co. (bankers), 285, 413, 479, 550, 648, 703
Brougham, Henry, Lord, 52 n., 356, 366, 586 n.
Brown, Charles Brockden, 221 & n., 274, 371 n., 376
Browning, Robert, 209 n., 457 n.
Brunelleschi, Filippo, 460 n.
Brunnen, Switzerland, Shelley’s stay in (1814), 242–3, 247
Bryant, William (money-lender), 266, 313, 321
Buffon, Comte de, 80, 340
Burckhardt, J.L., 410
Burdett, Sir Francis, 43, 51, 111, 127, 151, 155, 156, 165, 167, 349, 366, 401, 539, 541, 590 n.
Bürger, Gottfried August, 374
Burke, Edmund, 261 n., 385
Bury, Lord, 53
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, x, 202, 208, 210, 236, 308, 310, 311, 319, 359, 375, 414, 439, 473, 490, 542, 551, 554, 621, 627, 628, 659, 662; Claire gains friendship of, 316–17; and his love poem, 317–18; and Claire becomes his mistress, 319–20; his arrival in Geneva, 324–5; and first meeting and friendship with Shelley, 325–7, 337–8; moves into Villa Diodati, 327; his relationship with Claire, 322, 325, 327, 334, 337, 343, 344, 345, 371, 418–20, 599, 612–13, 654–5; and Claire becomes pregnant, 327 & n.; Shelley’s hallucination, 328–30; and his tour of lake with Shelley, 330, 334–8; and visit to Chamonix, 341; agrees to look after Claire’s child, 343; Shelley’s departure, 344–5; and Shelley’s Will, 346 n.; publication of his Childe Harold, 348, 403; Shelley writes about reform movement to, 349; birth of daughter Alba (Allegra), 356; and Shelley’s letters from Marlow to, 369–70, 377, 391, 406; influence on Shelley of, 382; Alba baptized ‘Clara Allegra’, 412; correspondence in Italy with Shelley over his collection of Allegra, 418–20, 421; his scandalous life in Venice, 419, 420, 440; Elise accompanies Allegra to Venice, 421–2; and Shelley’s and Claire’s journey to Venice, 440–1; and Claire’s presence concealed from, 441; Shelley’s meetings in Venice with, 441–2, 445–6; and invites Shelleys to stay at Este, 442–3; and consoles Shelleys after death of Clara, 447; Shelley’s opinion of, 448–9; and portrayed in ‘Julian and Maddalo’, 449–57; Shelleys take leave of, 458; correspondence with Hoppner about Elena affair, 467–8, 666; Claire’s letters to, 513, 519–20; moves to Ravenna with La Guiccioli, 571; Claire’s threatened visit to Ravenna to see Allegra, 598–9; and his correspondence with Shelley about Allegra, 612–13; his view of Sgricci, 623–4; moves Allegra to Bagnacavallo Convent, 640–1; correspondence with Shelley about death of Keats, 647–8; and invited by Shelley to Bagni di Pisa, 654; reference in Adonais to, 657; Shelley’s visit to Ravenna, 663–73; his animal menagerie, 664–5; and Shelley’s admiration of Don Juan, 665–6, 676; and Elena affair, 666, 669; his decision to move to Pisa, 669–70, 671; refers to Shelley as ‘the Snake’, 672–3; Shelley obtains lease of Palazzo Lanfranchi for, 673, 674; and scheme for joint publishing venture in Pisa with Shelley and Hunt, 674–5, 682, 694–5; his arrival and stay in Pisa, 685–91; and afternoon shooting expeditions, 685–6, 690; and billiards, 687, 691; effect of his presence on Shelley, 687–8; and dinner-table conversation and jokes, 688–90; Shelley’s translation of Faust, 693; Hunt’s visit to Pisa postponed, 694–5; and the ‘Spezia Plan’ for summer colony, 696; Shelley’s increasing strain in friendship with, 695, 699, 704, 709, 711; refuses to let Claire see Allegra, 702, 703; Shelley secures loan for Hunt from, 703–4; and dragoon incident, 706–8, 710; Claire’s plan to kidnap Allegra, 709; his move to Livorno, 710, 712, 715; death of Allegra and departure of Shelley, 712–13; and Shelley’s new sailing boat, 716; and the Bolivar, 717, 724; last meetings with Shelley in Pisa, 728; his ‘Vision of Judgement’ published in the Liberal, 728; and Shelley’s death, 730; sails for Greece, 731; and death at Missolonghi (1824), 731
Cain, Byron, 202, 210, 685, 687, 689, 711
Calais, 235–6, 414
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 522, 559, 560, 612, 619, 677, 692, 696, 711, 716
Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are, William Godwin, 8, 98, 168, 334, 389
Calvert family, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 219
Calvert, William, 100 n.
Cambridge Intelligencer, 119
Cameron, Kenneth Neill, xi, 187 n., 353 n.
Campbell, Thomas, 181
Cannon, George, 280
Canova, Antonio, 408
Capitol, Rome, 460, 487, 509, 512
Carbonari, 609, 665, 686
Carlile, Richard, 139, 151, 155, 349, 384, 388, 530 n., 541 n.; 593, 611; biographical details, 151 n.; his publication of Queen Mab, 208–9, 366, 660 & n.; trial of, 370 n., 541, 542, 556–7, 569, 590 n.; and Shelley’s open letter to Examiner on, 542, 556–8, 562, 580
Carlyle, Thomas, 733
Carpenter, Edward, 633 n.
Carpenter & Son (publishers), 309
Cartwright, Major John, 52, 165 & n., 366, 541
Casa Aulla, see Pisa
Casa Bertini, see Bagni di Lucca
Casa Frassi, see Pisa
Casa Galetti, see Pisa
Casa Magni, see Lerici
Casa Prinni, see Bagni di Pisa
Casa Ricci, see Livorno
Casa Silva, see Pisa
Casciano baths (near Pisa), 592, 596
Cashman, execution of, 364, 397
Castlereagh, Lord, 135, 165, 475, 476–7, 576
Catholic Committee, Shelley addresses Fishamble Street meeting of, 120, 123, 124–6, 166
Catholic Emancipation, 106, 120, 646
Cato Street Conspiracy (1820), 138, 385 n., 579–80, 581, 590
Catullus, 434
Cavalcanti, Guido, Shelley’s translation of sonnet, 308
Cenci, Beatrice, portrait of, 513, 515, 516–17 & n., 525, 526–7
Cenci, Count, 513, 514, 515
‘Cenci Manuscript’, 425–6, 513
Chadwick, Sir Edwin, 586 n.
Chambéry, 415, 416
Chambers, Sir Robert, 38
Chamonix, Shelley’s visit to (1816), 339–43
Champion, 208, 392
Chapel Street, London, see Westbrook
Charles III, Duke of Savoy, 335
Charlotte, Princess, death of, 384, 385, 387
Charters, Thomas (coachmaker), 213, 219, 265, 284 n.
Chartism, xii, 208, 209, 385 n., 402, 586, 660
Chatterton, Thomas, 33, 649, 658
Chepstow, 145, 148
Chernaik, Judith, 371 n.
Chesnut Cottage, see Keswick
Chesser, Dr Eustace, 33 n.
Chiappi, Signor G.B. del, 424, 426
Chichester, Lord, 137, 159
Childe Harold, Byron, 311, 316, 324, 334, 337, 338, 344, 345, 346, 402, 403, 442, 448, 542, 703
Chillon, 334, 335, 336
‘Christabel’, S. T. Coleridge, 328–9, 345, 348
Church Terrace, see London
Cicero, 30, 265, 274, 290, 479
Cisma de Inglaterra, Calderón, 560
Clairmont, Mrs, see Godwin, Mrs (2nd wife)
Clairmont, Charles (Claire’s brother), 170, 251, 277, 281, 285, 702; joins boating expedition on Thames, 291–4; sent £10 by Shelley, 343; visits Livorno, 527, 538; and moves with Shelleys to Florence, 541–2; leaves Florence, 561; letter from Vienna to Claire, 609; and Claire joins him in Vienna, 731
Clairmont, Claire (originally: Jane), 227, 170, 312, 574, 646, 659, 663; her relationship with Mary Shelley, 171, 241, 242, 258, 277, 278, 369, 377; triangular friendship with Shelley and Mary, 230, 232, 233 & n.; and Shelley elopes with Mary, 234, 235; mother follows them to Calais, 235–6; and their stay in Paris, 236–7; and journey through France to Lake Lucerne, 237–43; character and appearance, 241–2, 320; relationship with Shelley, 241, 242, 247–8, 263–5, 268, 275, 276, 277; returns to London, 247–9, 250, 251; moves to St Pancras, 254; horror session with Shelley, 257–61, 275; her concept of subterranean community of women, 258 & n.; quarrels with Shelley, 263; Shelley hides from bailiffs with, 265–8; moves to Nelson Square, 269; establishes her independence from her family, 269–70; and changes her name to Claire, 270; Shelley’s attempt at ‘shared household’, 277–9; moves to Pimlico, 280–1; and Mary wants her to leave, 281; her departure for Lynmouth, 282–3, 285; in Ireland with brother Charles, 287; and Charles’s letter about boating expedition to, 291; Shelley’s financial support of, 307; her judgement of Alastor, 308 n.; and her campaign to gain friendship of Byron, 316–17; and Byron’s love poem to, 317–18; becomes Byron’s mistress, 319–20; goes to Geneva with Shelleys, 321–4; her relationship with Byron, 322, 325, 327, 334, 338, 343, 344, 371, 599, 612–13, 654–5; Byron’s arrival in Geneva, 324–5; introduces Shelley to Byron, 325; and friendship between Shelleys and Byron, 325–29, 337; her pregnancy, 327, 343, 348; visits Chamonix valley, 339–43; Byron agrees to look after her child, 343; and Shelley’s offer to support her, 343; her pain on departure from Geneva, 345; life in Bath with Shelleys, 346, 347–8, 350; and Shelley’s Will, 346 n.; Fanny’s suicide, 347, 354, 356; and Shelley’s marriage to Mary, 353, 355; birth of her daughter Allegra, 356; at Albion House, Marlow with Shelleys, 367, 368–9, 380, 383, 389, 407; her musical gift, 369, 371–2, 408; absorbed by her baby, 371; stays with Hunts in London, 377; joins Shelley at Mabledon Place in London, 383; her ambiguous position in Shelley household, 405–6; moves with Shelleys to Great Russell Street, 408, 410; Alba baptized ‘Clara Allegra’, 412; departure for Italy, 412–13; and Elise, 415, 416; her notes on ballet in Milan, 416; and pistol incident, 418; Byron’s refusal to see her, 418, 420; and Shelley-Byron correspondence about Allegra, 418–20; and Allegra taken to Venice, 421–2; goes to Livorno, 422; and friendship with Gisbornes, 423, 426; at Casa Bertini in Bagni di Lucca, 426, 428; travels to Venice with Shelley, 439–41; and her presence concealed from Byron, 441, 442; stays at Villa Capuccini in Este, 442–3, 444, 445, 447, 449; journey south, 458–60; and arrival in Naples, 462; Elena affair and, 465, 467–71, 473, 481–4; leaves Naples, 479–80; in Rome, 485–7, 509; begins new diary, 485; Aemilia Curran paints her portrait, 511; moves to Via Sestina, 511, 512; her letter to Byron, 513–14; death of William, 518; and unhappy summer at Monte Nero, 519–20, 522; refuses Henry Reveley’s offer of marriage, 527; takes singing lessons, 527, 561, 571; and brother Charles’s visit, 527; moves to Florence, 541–2, 551; friendship with Sophia Stacey, 65; and visits Uffizi, 565; her life and reading in Jan. 1820, 571–2; moves to Pisa, 573; and friendship with Masons, 576–7; and Vaccà’s diagnosis, 577; and the Pisan Carnival, 577; records discussions with Masons, 577; brush with Colonel Finch, 579; Paolo’s blackmail of Shelley and, 596 & n., 600; moves to Casa Ricci, Livorno, 596–7; deteriorating relationship between Mary and, 598; and her anxiety over Allegra, 598–9; plans for her to leave Shelley household, 600–1; in Bagni di Pisa, 603, 604; goes on vacation to Livorno, 608, 609; returns to Casa Silva in Pisa, 612; and Shelley-Byron correspondence about Allegra, 612–13; stays with Bojti family in Florence, 615–16; Shelley’s letters to, 618–19, 621, 628–9, 640–1, 652, 654–5, 656, 661, 690–1, 717; returns temporarily to Pisa, 621–2; her cartoon captions, 621; Medwin’s favourable impression of, 622; meets Pacchiani, 623; and Emilia Viviani, 624–5, 627; and experiments in mesmerism, 626; returns to Florence, 628; and ill with scrofulous gland, 628; school plan for, 629, 649, 654; her attitude to Shelley’s relationship with Emilia, 631; referred to in Epipsychidion, 632, 636–7; her depression in Florence, 649, 654; uses Allegra to put pressure on Byron and Shelleys, 654–5; spends summer in Livorno, 662; Shelley visits her en route for Ravenna, 663–4; and Elena affair, 666–9; stays with Shelleys at San Giuliano, 673; learns of Byron’s move to Pisa, 673; visits Spezia with Shelleys, 677; upset that Byron not bringing Allegra with him, 677; returns to San Giuliano with Shelley, 677–8; returns to Florence, 683; and Byron’s arrival in Pisa, 685; translates Part I of Faust, 694; meets Elise again, 701–2; Byron refuses to let her see Allegra, 702–3; and her plan to kidnap Allegra, 708–10; moves back to Pisa with Williams, 710; death of Allegra and move to Lerici, 712–13, 715; leaves for Florence, 726; and returns to Casa Magni, 724; and Mary’s miscarriage, 724, 725; her activities after Shelley’s death, 730, 731, 733; and last years and death in Florence, 733