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For her, Northern Italy was the gateway to our country, but also the way back to her homeland, England, at the end of her singular and tragic Grand Tour in 1823: starting from the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome, where Shelley's son, husband and some close friends are buried, Tobias Jones follows in her footsteps in Genoa and on the Ligurian-Tuscan coast, the conclusion of her Grand Tour which ended tragically with the death of her husband Percy B. Shelley by sea, while he was trying to reach the "Gulf of Poets" with his boat.