A Brief Sketch Of The Life Of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Author : Richard Henry Stoddard
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230379036
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Anecdote Biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley written by Richard Henry Stoddard and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... Shelley's Grave. When I arrived at Leghorn, as I could not immediately go on to Rome, I consigned Shelley's ashes to our Consul at Rome, Mr. Freeborn, requesting him to keep them in his custody until my arrival. When I reached Rome, Freeborn told me that to quiet the authorities there, he had been obliged to inter the ashes with the usual ceremonies in the Protestant burying-place. When I came to examine the ground with the man who had the custody of it, I found Shelley's grave amidst a cluster of others. The old Roman wall partly inclosed the place, and there was a niche in the wall formed by two buttresses--immediately under an ancient pyramid, said to be the tomb of Caius Cestius. There were no graves near it at that time. This suited my taste, so I purchased the recess, and sufficient space for planting a row of the Italian upright cypresses. As the souls of heretics are foredoomed by the Roman priests, they do not affect to trouble themselves about their bodies. There was no "faculty " to apply for nor bishop's license to exhume the body. The custode or guardian who dwelt within the inclosure and had the key of the gate, seemed to have uncontrolled power within his domain, and scudi, impressed with the image of Saint Peter with the two keys, ruled him. Without more ado, masons were hired, and two tombs built in the recess. In one of these, when completed, I deposited the box, with Shelley's ashes, and covered it in with solid stone, inscribed with a Latin epitaph, written by Leigh Hunt. I received the following note at Leghorn previous to burning the body: -- "DEAR TRelAWNY, "PiSA, ist August, 182a. "You will of course call upon us in your way to your melancholy task; but I write to say, that you must not reckon upon passing through...