3 AUGUST 1944, page 10

Marginal Comment

By itAROLD NICOLSON rit A HI Pisa! " wrote Dante in vituperation, but to us his invec- tive echoes as an anxious sigh. For days the lovely, lonely city has lain as a small brown......

Strange It Was To Gaze Upon Those Unaltered Perspectives And

to recall what are perhaps the most vivid literary - associations which we Englishmen possess.The high building on the left, No. 349 Lungarno, was known as the Tre Palazzi di......

It Was In The Flat Rented By Ned And Jane

Williams in the Tre Palazzi that Trelawny, on the first night of his arrival in Pisa, first saw Shelley. The description which he has left us of that encounter furnishes the......

In No Instance Is Trelawny's Habit Of Giving A Romantic

colouring to the events which he describes more regrettable than in his fainoui account of the burning of Shelley's body on August 16, 1822. 1 possess a little book written by......

Another Of Trelawny's Legends Is Dissipated By Guido...

Trelawny wished, for romantic effect, to represent' cremation as having taken place on a desolate part of the c' between the pine trees and the sea. " The lonely and er......