Shelley, a Diet for Peace

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¹ The Association was created in 1997 in Lerici (La Spezia). Since then, it has been working to popularize Mary Shelley’s works in Italy.

² Mariacristina Cavecchi et al., Scekspir al Bekka : Romeo Montecchi dietro le sbarre dell’Istituto penale minorile Beccaria (Florence: Clichy, 2020).

³ Michael Owen Jones, ‘In Pursuit of Percy Shelley, “The First Celebrity Vegan”: An Essay on Meat, Sex, and Broccoli,’ Journal of Folklore Research 53, no. 2 (2016), 5.

⁴ Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), I, 78.

⁵ Marco Canani, ‘Percy Bysshe Shelley, a Vegetarian Poet,’ in Not Just Porridge: English Literati at Table (Archaeopress Publishing, 2017), 57–68.

⁶ David Perkins, Romanticism and Animal Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 118.

⁷ Michael Owen Jones, ‘In Pursuit of Percy Shelley, “The First Celebrity Vegan”’.

⁸ William Buchan, Domestic Medicine; Or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines (printed for W. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand; and A. Kincaid & W. Creech, and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh, 1772), 178.

⁹ Shelley, Prose Works, I, 29.

¹⁰ Thomas Jefferson Hogg, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: E. Moxon, 1858), II, 35.

¹¹ Hogg, Life of Shelley, 275.

¹² Quoted in Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Shelley’s Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity  (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

¹³ Hogg, Life of Shelley, 117.

¹⁴ See Nathaniel Brown, Sexuality and Feminism in Shelley (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979), ‘The Detestable Distinctions of Sexes’.

¹⁵ Teddi Lynn Chichester, ‘Shelley’s Imaginative Transsexualism in “Laon and Cythna”,’ Keats-Shelley Journal 45 (1996): 77–101.

¹⁶ Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam (printed for C. and J . Ollier in London, 1 818), xxv, xxvii.

¹⁷ Nathaniel Brown, ‘The “Double Soul”: Virginia Woolf, Shelley, and Androgyny,’ Keats-Shelley Journal 33 (1984): 182–204.

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Claudio Favazza

Claudio Favazza holds an M.A. in European and Extra-European Languages and Literatures, with a focus on contemporary British theatre. He reviews for Stratagemmi, a theatre and performance studies magazine, and is a member of TYPUS (Transforming Young People Using Shakespeare), a Creative Europe programme, where he works as a young director in collaboration with Teatro Puntozero and partners from Greece and Norway. He translated several contemporary plays and directed an eco-play from the volume Play Your Part, published by Milano University Press. In February 2024 he devised and directed a play during the workshop ‘Shakespeare al BeKKa’, an initiative which fosters the collaboration between university students and teachers, members of Teatro Puntozero and inmates at the Cesare Beccaria Young Offenders Institution.