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After a failed marriage Shelley entered into a triangular relationship with Mary Godwin (later to become his wife) and her stepsister. Harried by creditors, ill health and "social hatred", Shelley took his household permanently abroad to Italy in the spring of 1818, leaving behind his sonnet "Ozymandias" and a mass of unpaid bills. They settled in Tuscany, and lived through a series of harrowing domestic experiences. In 1822 they moved to San Terenzo and Shelley began his last major poem, "The Triumph of Life".
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