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.
After Guido returns from Paris, he continues with his reckless conduct, taking part in "nightly orgies in Palazzo Carega."
Palazzo Carrega-Cataldi, Galleria dorata (Lorenzo De Ferrari 1734-1744)
Where Guido goes in attempts to make more money in the hopes to exact revenge upon Torella and his birthplace.
The home of Fanny's relative, where she stays after her family days. This is also where Louis and Fanny are reunited.
Finding the details as to what events may have lead to the writing of "Porphyria's Lover". Robert Browning wrote a host of dramatic monologue that made him very famous. In the 19th Century women were not considered equal to men, the traditions of victorian women saw them only as housewives and cooks.The poem is spoken by a poetic speaker which helps offer deeper meaning of the poem. Robert Browning offers a poem that shows how woman in the victorian era could be taken advantage of.
After returning from banishment, the Marchese Torella takes up residence with his daughter Juliet in San Pietro d'Arena, a suburb of Genoa. Guido comes here to marry Juliet, but the contract that binded them together was nullified by the sale of Guido's inheritance.
