Another of Trelawny's legends is dissipated by Guido Biagi researches.
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 scenery," he writes, " that surrounded us-so exactly harmonised Shelley's genius that I could imagine his spirit soaring over us. Guido Biagi, however, was shown by separate eye-witnesses exact spot where the cremation took place. It was on the very ou skirts of Viareggio, "between the Piazza Paolina and the Due Fosse, near the site where now stands the Vittorio Emanuele naval hosPit A large and inquisitive crowd was present at the ceremony ; tb was no loneliness, and little grandeur. I may be blamed for destro. ing in this manner the solemn, solitary picture which Trelawny bequeathed. But when the Gothic Line is broken and we press past the tower of Migliarino, past the thin mouth of the Serc towards Spezzia, seeing in front of us the glistening barricades the Carrara mountains, there may be some who may wish to pa beside the naval hospital at Viareggio and to recall the sad cerem of August 16th, • 1822.
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