Two English Poets in Livorno in the 19th Century 

Via Giorgio Byron, the Road named after Byron in Montenero, LivornoGeorge Gordon Byron (London 1788 - Missolunghi 1824) spent the winter of 1822 in Pisa, in Palazzo Lanfranchi on the Lungarno, where the Shelleys also spent that winter.

In early April 1822 he came to Montenero with Count and Countess Gamba, staying in Villa Dupouy, owned by the banker Francesco Dupouy. On the 2 July they returned to Pisa.

While in Livorno Byron received a message in verse from Goethe (to whom Byron had dedicatd his tragedy Werner). He had it translated by Enrico Mayer, then only 20 years old, and answered saying that he was about to embark for Greece to help in the battle for freedom. He did so aboard the Ercole.
In 1900 the road in Montenero, Via Giorgio Byron, was named after him, commemorating his short stay in Livorno.

Villa Valsovano, Livorno, where Shelley stayed in the 19th CenturyPerce Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) first came to Livorno in May 1818 with his wife and children William and Clara, staying with John and Mary Gisborne and her son Enrico Reveley.

They returned a year later, in 1819, after their children had died, staying from mid-June until September in the Villa Valsovano (Via Venuti 23) where Shelley finished writing his tragedy “The Cenci”, a verse drama based on a real Italian family from the 16th century.  250 copies of the work were printed in Livorno by printers Giovanni Tommasi and Glauco Masi  and then sent to the publisher Ollier in London.
The following summer they were back again for a short stay, Shelley composing his celebrated “To a Skylark”. A plaque placed on the villa in 1962, 140 years after his death, describes these stays.
Shelley came to Livorno for the last time in the summer of 1820, staying at Casa Ricci and here writing his Ode to Freedom.
Together with English essayist Leigh Hunt, Shelley had plans to start a literary journal. He drowned while sailing in the Bay of La Spezia, on his way back from Lerici on board a boat called the Ariel. He was cremated on the beach near Viareggio.
Shelley is buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome (as is Keats), but his heart lies in St Peter’s Churchyard in Bournemouth, Dorset, UK. Mary Shelley’s son, Percy Shelley lived for a period in Boscombe, a district of Bournemouth, on an estate known as Boscombe Manor. The residence is now called Shelley Park and is a listed building.