Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at age 29 on July 8, 1822, when his boat sank during a stormy return voyage from Leghorn (Livorno, Italy) to Lerici. Legend has it that his widow, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, kept his preserved heart in a box in her writing desk after the rest of her husband’s body was cremated.
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