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Keats-Shelley Memorial House Review
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Keats-Shelley Memorial House
- Address: Piazza di Spagna 26, next to Spanish Steps, Piazza di Spagna, Rome | Map It
- Phone: 06/6784235
- www.keats-shelley-house.org
- Category: Memorials/Monuments
- Location: Piazza di Spagna
Fodor's Review:
To help fight off the effect of consumption, the English Romantic poet John Keats lived here in what was the colorful bohemian quarter of 18th- and 19th-century Rome, especially favored by the English. Keats had become celebrated through such poems as "Ode to a Nightingale" and "She Walks in Beauty" but his trip to Rome was for naught, for he died here on February 23, 1821, aged only 25, forevermore the epitome of the doomed poet. In this "Casina di Keats," you can visit his rooms, which have been preserved as they were when he died here in 1821. Little is left of his furnishings (not that he had many) but they contain a rather quaint collection of memorabilia of English literary figures of the period -- Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Joseph Severn, and Leigh Hunt as well as Keats -- and an exhaustive library of works on the Romantics. For total immersion, inquire about the house's apartment for rent (three days to six months).
- Cost: EUR 3.50
- Open: Weekdays 9-1 and 3-6, Sat. 11-2 and 3-6
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