# Tracing Byron and Shelley’s footsteps in Pisa 2026-08-09T11:47:56+00:00 | World & Diplomacy | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Frontline reports on a recent visit to Pisa, Italy, tracing the haunts of poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The author visits Palazzo Lanfranchi on the River Arno, where Byron lived in 1821 with menagerie and literary friends including the Shelleys. It now houses state archives. She also sought Villa Dupuy near Livorno, now a shuttered private property. Shelley died in 1822 when his boat capsized off La Spezia. Byron died two years later in Greece. The author recalls studying Byron in Kolkata and later living near his English ancestral estate. ## Coverage - frontline.thehindu.com Tags: Byron, Italy, literary tourism, Pisa, poetry, Shelley Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/tracing-byron-and-shelleys-footsteps-in-pisa/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/tracing-byron-and-shelleys-footsteps-in-pisa/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.