I’m going to the beach town of Viareggio for the day. I read that Shelley died off the coast of the town (as you may know, it was very popular for English poets to die in Italy during the 19th century). Leafing through his wiki I found this (here are other references):
The day after Shelley’s death, the Tory newspaper The Courier gloated: “Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned, now he knows whether there is a God or not.”