ABSTRACT
Edward John Trelawny, who was a year younger than Shelley, had already begun to live a life of adventure. 'The Triumph of Life' is written in terza rima, a very difficult metre in English, but handled here with wonderful mastery. The Shelley and Williamses had formed a plan of going to the Bay of Spezzia together for the summer of 1822. Trelawny showed them the model of an American schooner, and it was resolved that Trelawny should write at once to a friend of his at Genoa, a Captain Roberts, commissioning him to build a boat for them. At the beginning of 1822 Shelley set himself to write a tragedy on Charles I, which he had begun and laid aside in 1819. In the middle of April Claire and the Williamses went to Spezzia again to look for houses. The smaller and eastern division of the Bay of Spezzia is called the Bay of Lerici.
