Non-Catholic Cemetery
Ancient walled cemetery holding the graves of Keats and Shelley, beside an Egyptian-style pyramid.
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This guide to Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery starts at an unmarked gravestone near where you're standing, one that carries no name at all. It traces how John Keats came to Rome in 1820 already gravely ill, and the dying request behind the strange epitaph his friends chose for him. From there it follows Percy Shelley, who wrote of this very cemetery in an elegy for Keats the following year. Listen for how their two stories end up buried close together.
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