Before returning to Juliet, Guido sells his final remaining estate in Albaro, a neighborhood in Genoa. With the funds from the sale, Guido buys fancy luxury goods with which to impress Juliet, including "furniture of regal splendor" and "caparisons flamed with jewels and cloth of gold" for his horse. This is representative of Guido's mindset; while the estate itself would certainly be more valuable, Guido squanders this for petty luxuries that make him appear wealthier than he is.
In the second paragraph the narrator tells us "I am beside the waters of Uri - where Tell lived - in Brunnen, where the Swiss patriots swore to die for freedom" (107). Lake Uri most likely referred to Lake Lucerne. Brunnen is pictured below.
According to Wiggins and Gourley, Shelley spent a year in Genoa after Percy's death and might have been to Genoa's Cathedral of San Lorenzo.
The latin inscription reads "Jan(us) P(ri)mu(s) rex italie * De Progenie Gigantiu(m)" which shows that Janus was the founder of the citry.
The Cathedral is picture below, as well as the Latin inscription
Calicut, now known as Kozhikode, is a city in India that has a particularly interesting relationship with the British Empire. Originally the city played a large part in trade for Arab traders, but eventually become a central player in the British East India Company. The reason this city become so important is primarily due to the material Calico, whose name comes from the city itself.
Geneva plays a significant role in Mary Shelley's life and travels as does it with her characters. Again, in The Swiss Peasant it takes precedence in the story, making several mentions to the lake and the city. Geneva was the birthplace of Shelley's Frankenstein.
Naples, Italy is a place that he traveled among also Florence and rome. This is the same few cities that Mary Shelley traveled but also Castruccio battled in and Victor traveled too among other characters in her writing. Shelley places her characters and settings in lands and cities that she has familiarity with and as we have discussed, that perhaps this is also her, inserting a piece of herself into the novel.
