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Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome

The house in which the famous English poet John Keats succumbed to consumption, now preserved as a memorial to his life and that of his friend Shelley, both of whom are buried in Rome's Protestant Cemetery..

The house in which the famous English poet John Keats succumbed to consumption, now preserved as a memorial to his life and that of his friend Shelley, both of whom are buried in Rome's Protestant Cemetery.


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About Keats-Shelley Memorial House

 Piazza di Spagna, 26, 00187 Roma, Italy

 +39 06 678 4235

 www.keats-shelley-house.org

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