Shelley in Italia

Abstract

Shelley spent his last four years as an Italian exile-a voluntary exile that lasted from 1818 to 1822. It is remarkable that the period was to be the most fruitful one for the floweriness and maturity of the poet's genius. Most of his masterpieces were produced in this period partly as a spontaneous overflow of his inspired imagination at the beauty of the country. Italian influence on Shelley in this respect, however, may well be investigated from its three different aspects, namely, political, literary and aesthetic, with a certain result which may lead us to a connection about the greatness of Shelley's debts to Italy.