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The Council of Pisa met from March to August 1409 to resolve the thirty-year-old Western Schism. It deposed both the Roman and the Avignon claimants and elected a new pope, Alexander V. Neither of the previous popes accepted the deposition. The result was three simultaneous popes instead of two.
Read the story →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.
Read the story →The Great Western Schism (1378–1417) followed directly from the seventy-year Avignon papacy. Rival lines of popes at Rome and Avignon (and later at Pisa) excommunicated each other and divided the Catholic Christian world along approximately Anglo-French political lines for a generation.
Read the story →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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