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Clara Shelley

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The Footnote June 25, 2026 · Protestant Cemetery, Rome

The Three-Year-Old Son the Shelleys Lost in a Roman Summer in 1819

William Shelley — Percy and Mary Shelley's first surviving son, born in 1816 in the immediate aftermath of the Villa Diodati summer — died of malaria in Rome on 7 June 1819. He is buried in the Protestant Cemetery at the foot of the Pyramid of Cestius, in the same enclosure where his father would be interred three years later.

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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · Cimitero Acattolico, Rome

The Three-Year-Old Buried at the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Whose Father Wrote Frankenstein's Other Half

William Shelley was the second child of Percy and Mary Shelley. He died of malaria at Rome on 7 June 1819, aged three years and four months. He is buried in the Protestant Cemetery, a few metres from Keats's grave and within sight of where his father's ashes would be interred three years later.

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