Created for the MuraLi project, discover all murals here.

This mural pays tribute to the great Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein, who lived in and around Livorno and Tuscany, Italy, with her partner Percy in the 1820s. I highly recommend reading about Mary Shelley (and Percy). Their life story is the kind of thing that would make an unbelievable eight-part Netflix series. As much as her life was marked by tragedy, Mary truly broke the mould for women of her era.

This mural honours her and her creation Frankenstein, a work that paved the way for what we now call science fiction.