Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley to Edward John Trelawny, [March 1822]
Gamba is with me, and we are drawing up
a paper demanded of us by the police. Mary tells me that you have an account from Lord Byron of the affair, and we wish to see it
before ours is concluded.
The man is severely
wounded in the side, and his life is supposed to be in danger from the weapon
having grazed the liver. It were as well if you could come here, as we shall
decide on no statement without you.
Ever yours truly,
Pietro Gamba (1801-1827)
The brother of Teresa Guiccioli and member of Carbonieri. He followed Byron to Greece and
left a memoir of his experiences.
Stefani Masi (d. 1822)
Sergeant-major of the Royal Tuscan Light Horse, wounded in an affray with Byron's
servants at Pisa.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [née Godwin] (1797-1851)
English novelist, daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecaft, and the second wife
of Percy Bysshe Shelley. She is the author of
Frankenstein (1818)
and
The Last Man (1835) and the editor of Shelley's works
(1839-40).
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
English poet, with Byron in Switzerland in 1816; author of
Queen
Mab (1813),
The Revolt of Islam (1817),
The Cenci and
Prometheus Unbound (1820), and
Adonais (1821).
Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881)
Writer, adventurer, and friend of Shelley and Byron; author of the fictionalized memoirs,
Adventures of a Younger Son (1831) and
Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (1858).
