Percy Bysshe Shelley Hunt, was later asked by John Bedford Leno whether he preferred Shelley or Byron as a man. He replied: On 8 July 1822, less than a month before his thirtieth birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm on the Gulf of Spezia while returning from Leghorn (Livorno) to Lerici in his sailing boat, the "Don Juan." He was returning from having set up "The Liberal" with the newly arrived Leigh Hunt. The name "Don Juan", a compliment to Byron, was chosen by Edward John Trelawny, a member of the Shelley–Byron Pisan circle. However, according to Mary Shelley's testimony, Shelley changed
Edward Bysshe (writer) the same year there appeared a translation by Bysshe of Xenophon's "Memorabilia", which was dedicated to John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham, and was reissued in 1758. Bysshe was not involved by name in the 1715 edition of further works by Bulstrode, and that has been taken as an indication that he had died by that date. Edward Bysshe (writer) Edward Bysshe (fl. 1712) was an English writer, remembered for his popular guide "The Art of Poetry" from 1702. While not respectable as a manual on verse-writing, it was used by leading authors. Bysshe's background is unclear. The "Oxford Dictionary