Jewelry and a Liver, by Carlos Zanón

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We all have in the romantic imaginary the funeral of the poet Percy Shelley. The beach of Viareggio, the pyre in which he incinerated, in the way of the Greek heroes, his famous witnesses: his friends Edward Trelawny and Leigh Hunt, his wife, Mary Shelley, and his colleague Lord Byron, hair in the wind. We owe it in part to the painter Édouard Fournier, who immortalized him in his funeral of Shelley. At one point, Trelawny rescued from the flame…