Which English poet was drowned in a boating accident off Leghorn, Italy in 1822?
The Triumph of Life "terza rima". The Triumph of Life The Triumph of Life was the last major work by Percy Bysshe Shelley before his death in 1822. The work was left unfinished. Shelley wrote the poem at Casa Magni in Lerici, Italy in the early summer of 1822. He modelled the poem, written in "terza rima", on Petrarch's "Trionfi" and Dante's "Divine Comedy". Shelley was working on the poem when he accidentally drowned on 8 July 1822 during a storm on a voyage from Leghorn. The poem was first published in the collection "Posthumous Poems" (1824) published in London by John and Henry
Rambles in Germany and Italy to recover her health. Fearing Percy Florence's (referred to as P– in the text) love of boats and the water, especially difficult for her after her own husband drowned in a boating accident, she is reluctant to continue to Italy and Lake Como while at the same time desiring to do so. After Shelley recovers her health and spirits, the group proceeds to Italy where she is overcome with nostalgia: Shelley writes of her overwhelming happiness in Italy and her sadness at having to leave it. At the end of September, her money to return to England fails to arrive,