Keats-Shelley House

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At the foot of the Spanish Steps
The library. Access to the books only on special request

The Keats-Shelley House is a Roman literary museum dedicated to the writers John Keats and Percy Shelley .

In the house on Piazza di Spagna , John Keats lived in three rooms from mid-November 1820, which he shared with his friend Joseph Severn until he died here on February 23, 1821. The Swedish doctor and writer Axel Munthe later lived in the house . Since the opening in the presence of the Italian King Viktor Emanuel III. it is open to the public on April 3, 1909. The house's collection includes manuscripts by Mary Shelley , William Wordsworth , Joseph Severn, and Oscar Wilde . There is also a library of around 8,000 volumes, including first editions, specializing in English Romanticism .

James Rennell Rodd wrote a poem about the house on the occasion of the museum opening.

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  1. ↑ Lord Rennell of Rodd, The Keats-Shelley House , in: Neville Rogers, Keats, Shelley & Rome , New York 1975, pp. 15-16.

Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 20.7 "  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 57.4"  E