Editing Lerici (section)

==People==
Italian author [[Mario Soldati]] had a residence in the ''[[frazione]]'' of [[Tellaro]].

Italian painter [[:it:Oreste Carpi|Oreste Carpi]] spent many years in San Terenzo making hundreds of paintings and drawings reproducing town landscapes.

English writers [[Mary Shelley]] and [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] lived some five kilometres north in an isolated old boathouse called Casa Magni and anchored their sailing boat in Lerici. Their closest neighbours were the villagers of the tiny hamlet of San Terenzo. Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned on 8 July 1822 in the [[Bay of Spezia]], returning to Lerici from a journey to [[Livorno]] and [[Pisa]]. His corpse eventually washed up on the beach at [[Viareggio]], located approximately halfway between Livorno and Lerici. Though the Italian poet and writer Sem Benelli first referred to the Golfo di Lerici, as the "Golfo dei Poeti" (Gulph of Poets) in 1910 to commemorate the death of Italian writer Paolo Mantegazza, (a famous Italian writer, neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist) at his residence in San Terenzo di Lerici,<ref>[http://www.cittadellaspezia.com/La-Spezia/Cronaca/Lerici-dedicato-al-Golfo-dei-Poeti-il-54149.aspx " Lerici: dedicato al Golfo dei Poeti il calendario dell'amministrazione comunale"], "Citta della Spezia", December 3, 2009</ref> the popularity of Lerici with the Shelleys and with [[Lord Byron]] helped promote the title Golfo dei Poeti, Poets' Bay, for the Golfo di Lerici.

Hungarian author [[Baroness Emmuska Orczy]], author of ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'', had a villa built in the hills above Lerici, near the locality of Bellavista, and called it La Padula.<ref>Orczy E. 1943.'' Links in the Chains of Life'', p. 174. London: Hutchinson & Co.</ref> Orczy and her husband Montague Barstow spent several months there in the 1930s – alternating between La Padula, Villa Bijou in [[Monte Carlo]], and trips to Britain. Eventually, they decided to abandon fascist Italy for Villa Bijou. La Padula still stands today.