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…
