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Lucca (prov.) Toscana Piazza Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Percy Bysshe ShelleyHorsham, Sussex 1792 - Gulf of La Spezia 1822one of the major English Romantic poets (Wikipedia) |
Urbano Lucchesi
1894 |
Bronze bust. The first non-British public sculpture dedicated to the poet, whose corpse was found nearby the Viareggio beach about ten days after he had drowned off the coast of Livorno while sailing back to Lerici.
The bust was removed to be molten in 1943, it was however saved by Veturio Paolini from Nazi destruction during the Second World War.
MDCCCXCIV giovanni bovio |
MONUMENTO A P.B. SHELLEY |
MONUMENT TO P.B. SHELLY |
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