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Jason Goodwin in Rome: ‘Shelley would have been appalled; Keats would have told them to shut up’

Jason Goodwin heads to the Eternal City and finds a very 21st century mode of transport.

In June, clutching Matthew Rice’s penetrating sketchbook guide to the city in one hand and Georgina Masson’s in the other, I went to Rome where, about a century ago, a group of poetry lovers, including the American ambassador, clubbed together to buy and preserve John Keats’s house by the Spanish Steps.

At the Keats-Shelley Museum, you can see the very room where Keats died…

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