Protestant Cemetery, Rome in the manuscript of "Adonais," the elegy Shelley had written the year before upon the death of Keats, in which the poet urges the traveler, "Go thou to Rome ...". Shelley and Mary's three-year-old son William was also buried in the Protestant Cemetery. Shelley's heart was finally buried, encased in silver, in 1889, with the son who survived him, Sir Percy Florence Shelley, but his gravestone in the Protestant Cemetery is inscribed: "Cor cordium" ("heart of hearts"), followed by a quotation from Shakespeare's "The Tempest": Protestant Cemetery, Rome The Cimitero Acattolico ("Non-Catholic Cemetery") of Rome, often referred to as the
Shelley Memorial Shelley Memorial The Shelley Memorial is a memorial to the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) at University College, Oxford, England, the college that he briefly attended and from which he was expelled for writing a pamphlet on "The Necessity of Atheism". Although Shelley was expelled from the college, he remains one of its most famous alumni and is now held in high honour there. In 2005, the college acquired some of Shelley's letters to further enhance its connection with the poet. The memorial consists of a white marble sculpture of a reclining nude and dead Shelley washed up on