
Shelley's Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, an 1873 painting by
Walter Crane.
Walter Crane (15 August 1845 &ndash 14 March 1915 was an English artist and book illustrator The tombstone in the foreground is actually that of
John Keats; the
Pyramid of Cestius is in the background.
The Pyramid of Cestius (in Italian, Piramide di Caio Cestio or Piramide Cestia) is an ancient Pyramid in Rome, Italy The Protestant Cemetery (Italian: Cimitero protestante), officially called the Cimitero acattolico ("Non-Catholic Cemetery") and often referred to as the Cimitero degli Inglesi ("English Cemetery") is a cemetery in Rome, located near Porta San Paolo alongside the Pyramid of Cestius, a small-scale Egyptian-style pyramid built in 30 BC as a tomb and later incorporated into the section of the Aurelian Walls that borders the cemetery. Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy. A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 The Porta San Paolo is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome. The Pyramid of Cestius (in Italian, Piramide di Caio Cestio or Piramide Cestia) is an ancient Pyramid in Rome, Italy The Egyptian pyramids are pyramid shaped structures located in Egypt, and were built as a tomb for dead pharaohs Year 30 BC was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Julian calendar. For the New York prison see The Tombs. A Tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. The Aurelian Walls (Mura aureliane were City walls built between 271 and 275 in Rome during the reign of the Roman Emperors Aurelian and Mediterranean cypress trees and other foliage in the cemetery cause it to mirror the more natural style of cemeteries seen in the lusher regions of northern Europe. Cupressus sempervirens, the Mediterranean Cypress,(Or Italian Tuscan or Graveyard Cypress or Pencil Pine is a species of cypress native to the eastern Northern Europe is a term for the northern part of Europe. The United Nations defines Northern Europe as (Finland As the name of the cemetery indicates, it is the final resting place of non-Catholics (not only Protestants or English people). Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The English people (from the adjective in Englisc) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to England who predominantly speak English
The earliest known burial is that of an Oxford student named Langton in 1738. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the Year 1738 ( MDCCXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or The most famous graves are those of the English poets John Keats (1795–1821) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822). The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4 1792 – July 8 1822 ˈpɝːsɪ ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛlɪ was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among Keats died in Rome of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or T u' b' erculosis Bacillus --> is a common His epitaph, which does not mention him by name, is by his friends Joseph Severn and Charles Brown: "This grave contains all that was mortal, of a YOUNG ENGLISH POET, Who on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his Heart, at the Malicious Power of his Enemies, Desired these Words to be engraven on his Tomb Stone: Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water. An epitaph (in Greek, &mdash literally " on the gravestone " is a short text honoring a deceased person strictly speaking that inscribed on " Shelley drowned off the Italian Riviera and was cremated on the shore near Viareggio. The Italian Riviera is the narrow coastal strip which lies between the Ligurian Sea and the mountain chain formed by the Maritime Alps and the Apennines Viareggio (which means "way of the kings" is a city located in northern Tuscany, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. His ashes were interred in the Protestant Cemetery; his heart, which his friend Edward John Trelawny had snatched from the flames, was kept by his widow Mary Shelley until her death and buried with her in Bournemouth. Edward John Trelawny ( November 13, 1792 &ndash August 13, 1881) was a Biographer, Novelist, and Adventurer and Mary Shelley ( Née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August Bournemouth ( is a large coastal resort town in the Borough of Bournemouth in Dorset, England.
Notable burials
- Hendrik Christian Andersen (1872–1940), sculptor, friend of Henry James
- Karl Briullov (1799–1852), Russian painter
- Zakhar Grigor'evich Chernyshev (1796–1862), Russian participant in the Decembrist revolt
- Gregory Corso (1930–2001), American beat generation poet
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882), American author of Two Years Before the Mast
- Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893–1973), Italian novelist
- August von Goethe (1789–1830), son of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; his monument features a medallion by Bertel Thorvaldsen
- Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian philosopher, leader of the Italian Communist Party
- John Keats (1795–1821), English poet
- Richard Saltonstall Greenough (1819–1904), American sculptor
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1794–1803), son of the German diplomat and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Bruno Pontecorvo (1913-1993), Italian nuclear physicist
- Alexander Ivanov (1806–1858), Russian painter
- Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949), Russian poet, philosopher, and classical scholar
- Hans von Marées (1837–1887), German painter
- George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882), American Minister to Italy 1861–1882, author of "Man and Nature"
- Malwida von Meysenbug (1816–1903), German author
- Axel Munthe (1857–1949), Swedish physician and author
- E. Herbert Norman (1909-57) Canadian diplomat and historian. Hendrik Christian Andersen ( Bergen, April 7 1872 -- Rome, December 19 1940) was a Norwegian-American sculptor Henry James, OM ( –) son of theologian Henry James Sr, brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James Karl Pavlovich Briullov (Russian Карл Павлович Брюллов) called by his friends the Great Karl ( December 12, 1799 – June Count Zakhar Grigoryevich Chernyshov or Tchernyshov (Захар Григорьевич Чернышёв (1722 - 1784 the eldest of three brothers Zakhar Ivan Tchernyshov Gregory Nunzio Corso ( March 26, 1930 &ndash January 17, 2001) was an American Poet, youngest of the inner circle Richard Henry Dana Jr ( August 1, 1815 - January 6, 1882) was an American Lawyer and Politician, and author Carlo Emilio Gadda ( May 14 1893 - November 21 1973) was an Italian Writer and Poet. ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfgaŋ fɔn ˈgøːtə (in English generally ˈgɝːtə 28 August 1749 22 March 1832 was a German writer (Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen ( November 19, 1770 – March 24, 1844) was a Danish / Icelandic sculptor Antonio Gramsci ('ɡramʃi ( January 23, 1891 &ndash April 27, 1937) was an Italian Philosopher, Writer, The Italian Communist Party (Italian Partito Comunista Italiano, or PCI emerged as the Communist Party of Italy ( Partito Comunista d'Italia) The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day Richard Saltonstall Greenough (1819-1904 was an American sculptor and younger brother to Neoclassical sculptor Horatio Greenough. Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt ( June 22, 1767 April 8, 1835) government functionary Bruno Pontecorvo russian Бруно Понтекорво (Marina di Pisa Italy August 22, 1913 - Dubna Russia September 24, 1993 Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov ( Russian: Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Ива́нов; July 28 ( July 16 [OS]) 1806 &ndash Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (Вячеслав Иванович Иванов ( February 16 ( 28) 1866&ndash July 16, 1949) was a Russian Hans von Marées ( 24 December 1837 – 5 June 1887) was a German painter George Perkins Marsh ( March 15, 1801 &ndash July 23, 1882) an American Diplomat and Philologist, is considered Malwida von Meysenbug ( October 28, 1816 - April 23, 1903) was a German writer who was friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe ( October 31, 1857, Oskarshamn, Sweden - February 11, 1949, Stockholm) was a Egerton Herbert Norman ( September 1, 1909 &ndash April 4, 1957) was a Canadian diplomat and historian
- Thomas Jefferson Page (1808–1899), commander of United States Navy expeditions exploring the Río de la Plata
- Gottfried Semper (1803–1879), German architect
- Joseph Severn (1793–1879), English painter, consul in Rome, and friend of John Keats, beside whom he is buried
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English poet
- Franklyn Simmons (1839–1913), American sculptor and painter
- William Wetmore Story (1819–1895), American sculptor, buried beside his wife under his own Angel of Grief. The Río de la Plata ( Spanish: " Silver River" &mdash which is often referred to in English-speaking countries as the River Plate Gottfried Semper ( November 29 1803 - May 15 1879) was a German Architect, Art critic, and professor of Joseph Severn ( December 7, 1793 &ndash August 3, 1879) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4 1792 – July 8 1822 ˈpɝːsɪ ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛlɪ was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day William Wetmore Story ( February 12, 1819 - October 7, 1895) was an American sculptor art critic poet and editor Angel of Grief is a 1894 sculpture by William Wetmore Story which serves as the grave stone of the artist and his wife at the Protestant Cemetery Rome.
- John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), English poet and critic
- Lady Temple (died 1809), wife of Sir Grenville Temple, 9th Baronet
- Edward John Trelawny (1792–1881), English author, friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, beside whose ashes he is buried
- Wilhelm Friedrich Waiblinger (1804–1830), German poet and biographer of Friedrich Hölderlin
- Friedrich Adolf Freiherr von Willisen (1798-1864) prussian General an ambassador at the Holy See
- Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894) American novelist and short story writer, friend of Henry James
- John Gibson (sculptor)
References
- International Herald Tribune; Elisabeth Rosenthal; February 8, 2006; "A Cemetery of Poets Is in Crisis in Rome"
See also
External links
John Addington Symonds ( October 5 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic Edward John Trelawny ( November 13, 1792 &ndash August 13, 1881) was a Biographer, Novelist, and Adventurer and Wilhelm Waiblinger ( November 21, 1804 - January 17 or 30 1830 was a German romantic poet, mostly remembered today in connection Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (ˈjoːhan ˈkrɪstiaːn ˈfriːdrɪç 'hœldərliːn in German March 20, 1770 &ndash June 6, 1843 Constance Fenimore Woolson ( March 5, 1840 &ndash January 24, 1894) was an American novelist and Short story John Gibson, (June 19 1790 -) was a Welsh sculptor. Life Early life He was born near Conwy, Wales, his father Poets' Graves is an on-line database of the last resting places of Poets. Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to Digitize, archive and distribute Cultural works An e-text (from " electronic text " sometimes written as etext) is generally any Text-based information that is available in a digitally
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