Shelley's notes This poem was chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near florence and on a day when that tempestuous wind, whose temperature is at once mild and animating was collecting the vapors which pour down the autumnal rains. They began, as I foresaw, at sunset with a violent tempest of hail and rain, attended by that magnificent thunder and lightning peculiar to the Cisalpine regions Florence was the home of dante creator of terza rima, the form of his Divine ComedyShelley’s notes “This poem was chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence, and on a day when that tempestuous wind, whose temperature is at once mild and animating, was collecting the vapors which pour down the autumnal rains. They began, as I foresaw, at sunset with a violent tempest of hail and rain, attended by that magnificent thunder and lightning peculiar to the Cisalpine regions.” • Florence was the home of Dante, creator of terza rima, the form of his Divine Comedy