Samuel Taylor Coleridge is shown here in this portrait Washington Allston painted in 1814. Coleridge today is well known for his poetry and his writings on "imagination." In Rome, sometime before the end of 1805, Allston and Coleridge became friends. They remained good friends throughout the rest of their lives. About the time Coleridge departed Italy with Allston in May of 1806, the Remarker No. 10 article by Benjamin Welles was being prepared for publication in The Monthly Anthology in Boston. Coleridge fled Italy at that time because, being British, he "heeded a warning that his life might be endangered by the coming of Napoleon's troops." [Gerdts and Stebbins, p. 38]