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The Protestant Cemetery in Rome<\/a> is a different place. Different than the ancient monuments, the Baroque churches, the bustling commercial life. Tucked away behind the Pyramid of Cestius<\/a>, it is lush and crowded with slabs of silent stone remembering the dead, mostly English and Americans who came to Rome, stayed for a while, and died.
\nIt was raining the day we went (Friday), so that made wandering and studying the tombstones not an option, but what I was able to take in plunged me right in the midst of a Grand Tour, of Romantics and artists, diplomats and writers – and so poignantly at times, their children who briefly flourished but then faded, remembered here in a foreign land even if their parents had to move on.
\nShelly is buried here, as well as Keats:
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Keats, on the left. "Young English Poet."<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nIn the vicinity:<\/p>\n

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