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in the city of Rome - Italy The English Romantic poet
John Keats who was seriously ill with tuberculosis at
the beginning of the nineteenth century
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The English
Romantic poet John Keats who was seriously ill with
tuberculosis at the beginning of the nineteenth century,
sought shelter in Rome in the hope that the local
healthy climate could perform a miracle and save his
young life; unfortunately it was of no use and on 23
February 1821 the disease prematurely tore him away
from literature and art at the tender age of twenty-six
inside this house in Rome, which situated at
the bottom of the stair way of Trinita dei Monti
which overlooks the magnificent
Piazza di Spagna.
A group
of his admirers were moved by this terrible fate and
started a collection in 1903 in America and in
England to raise the funds necessary to purchase
the apartment and thus make it a small corner of the
United Kingdom in the heart of Rome dedicated
to the memory of the unfortunate couple of English
Romantic artists who are buried in the non-Catholic
cemetery in Testaccio.
The four
rooms which make up the apartment were inaugurated as
the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in 1909 by KingVittorio
Emanuele Ill.
Here
one can in fact admire, in addition to the original
furnishings; nurnerous relics associated with the life
of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the farnous poet who
died at the age of thirty when he drowned during a boattrip
after an adventurous life also spent in Italy;
manuscripts, paintings, sculptures,
prints and drawings as well as an important
collection of watercolours by the painter
Joseph Severn who lived in the house with Keats
create the evocative setting to the memory of the two
great English Rornantics and a small circle of
artists frorn the same country such as Lord Byron,
J.L. Hunt and Oscar Wilde.
The original
manuscripts and autographs, which are
kept in the closets along the walls of the rooms,
are joined by a very rich collection of approximately
10,000 books that document the useful exchange relations
between England and Italy during the fervent
Romantic season making it a very up-to-date specialised
library (it also publishes a newsletter and a newspaper).
Some
of the particular items on display include a cast of
Keats' face and a lock of his hair, as well as Oscar
Wilde's autograph.
Information
and Addresses
Address
Piazza
di Spagna, 27
Visiting
Hours
From Mondays
to Fridays from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm and from 3.00 pm
to 6.00 pm. Saturdays from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm. and
3.00 pm. to 6.00 pm.
Closed
Sunday,
AUG.15 and the Christmas holidays
Telephone
066784235;
Fax 066784167
Price
€
3,50
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