IMAGES from the POETRY from 9 Apr 2012 to 24 Nov 2012 10:00-18:00
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ILLUSTRATING KEATS: IMAGES FROM THE POETRY From 9 Apr 2012 to 24 Nov 2012 10:00-18:00 "ILLUSTRATING KEATS: Images from the Poetry" The Keats-Shelley House's current exhibition presents a selection of images from major illustrated editions of Keats's poems from 1856 to the present day, telling the story of the interpretation of Keats in a fresh and fascinating way. Price: Entrance to the exhibition is included in the museum's normal entrance fee. Location: Salone. "THE BRONTËS AND THE SHELLEYS - CRAFTING STORIES FROM LIVES": A TALK BY JULIET GAEL ON SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER AT 16.00 10 Nov 2012 from 16:00 to 18:00 Janice Graham, writing as Juliet Gael, is the author of the critically acclaimed historical novel Romancing Miss Brontë, and is currently working on a follow-up novel that deals with the fascinating lives of the Shelleys. Part literary reading, part discussion, and part work-in-progress seminar, Juliet will address the creative problems involved in romanticising the lives of authors, and will give us some tantalising sneak previews into the process of writing her book about the Shelleys. Everyone is welcome and the museum's normal standard entrance fee applies. Please call on 06 678 4235 or email info@keats to reserve a place. Otherwise just come along on Saturday the 10th of November, and enjoy some refreshments after! To know more about Romancing Miss Brontë please click on the following link:http://www.romancingmissbronte.com/book.html Price: The price is included in the normal entrance fee. Location: Salone. GUIDED TOUR IN ENGLISH 14 Nov 2012 from 16:30 to 17:00 Following the success of the Summer talks, the Keats-Shelley House will offer more guided tours of the museum during the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness". There will be two talks per week from October to December and they will be thus organized: Talks in English will take place every Wednesday at 4.30pm. Talks in Italian will take place every Saturday at 12pm (except 8 December, when the Museum will be closed). The thirty-minute talks are given by our expert Keats-Shelley House guides and provide an introduction to the house and its collection, to the lives and works of the poets to whom it is dedicated and to the history of Romanticism. They will certainly enhance your visit to the museum. There is no extra fee for the talks, which are included in the price of the ticket for the museum, and there's no need to book in advance. Just come along, enjoy, and learn! Price: The price is included in the entrance fee. Location: Salone. ABBA ABBA: BOOK LAUNCH 15 Nov 2012 from 16:00 to 17:00 To mark the anniversary of Keats's arrival in Rome (15 November 1820), the Keats-Shelley House will host the launch of a new Italian edition of ABBA ABBA, Anthony Burgess's 1977 novel set at the... Keats-Shelley House! The novel, based upon the story of John Keats's final months in Piazza di Spagna, deals with a fictional meeting between the English poet and Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, whose sonnets were translated into English by Burgess himself and are included in the second half of the book. The Robin publishing house has graciously accepted to re-release a limited edition of this gem of a novel, which comes with a new introduction by the Keats-Shelley House Curator Giuseppe Albano and will be only available for purchase in the museum's gift shop. The book launch will take place here at the House on Thursday 15 November at 4pm, when the museum curatorial staff, together with the publisher Claudio Maria Messina, will coordinate an informal talk in both English and Italian about the novel, its sonnets, and the house in the 1820s. In order to reserve a place or to get more information, please call 06 678 42 35 or write to [email protected], thanks. Price: Admission to the book launch is included in the museum's normal entrance fee. Location: Salone EDOARDO CACCIATORE CENTENARY 18 Nov 2012 from 10:30 to 13:00 To mark the centenary of the birth of poet Edoardo Cacciatore, who was born on 18 November 1912, the Keats-Shelley House, where Cacciatore lived with his wife Vera, former Curator of the museum, will host a special morning of readings from his work by poets and testimonies by people who knew him well. The event will start at 10.30 and will be conducted in Italian. At the end refreshments will be served and there will be a tour of the collection. There is no entrance fee on this occasion but booking is essential. Please call 06 678 4235 or email [email protected] for further information. Price: Entrance is free but advance booking is essential on this occasion. Location: Salone. GUIDED TOUR IN ENGLISH 21 Nov from 16:30 to 17:00 Following the success of the Summer talks, the Keats-Shelley House will offer more guided tours of the museum during the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness". There will be two talks per week from October to December and they will be thus organized: Talks in English will take place every Wednesday at 4.30pm. Talks in Italian will take place every Saturday at 12pm (except 8 December, when the Museum will be closed). The thirty-minute talks are given by our expert Keats-Shelley House guides and provide an introduction to the house and its collection, to the lives and works of the poets to whom it is dedicated and to the history of Romanticism. They will certainly enhance your visit to the museum. There is no extra fee for the talks, which are included in the price of the ticket for the museum, and there's no need to book in advance. Just come along, enjoy, and learn! Price: The price is included in the entrance fee. Location: Salone. GUIDED TOUR IN ITALIAN 24 Nov from 12:00 to 12:30 Following the success of the Summer talks, the Keats-Shelley House will offer more guided tours of the museum during the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness". There will be two talks per week from October to December and they will be thus organized: Talks in English will take place every Wednesday at 4.30pm. Talks in Italian will take place every Saturday at 12pm (except 8 December, when the Museum will be closed). The thirty-minute talks are given by our expert Keats-Shelley House guides and provide an introduction to the house and its collection, to the lives and works of the poets to whom it is dedicated and to the history of Romanticism. They will certainly enhance your visit to the museum. There is no extra fee for the talks, which are included in the price of the ticket for the museum, and there's no need to book in advance. Just come along, enjoy, and learn! Price: The price is included in the entrance fee. Location: Salone. GUIDED TOUR IN ENGLISH 28 Nov from 16:30 to 17:00 Following the success of the Summer talks, the Keats-Shelley House will offer more guided tours of the museum during the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness". There will be two talks per week from October to December and they will be thus organized: Talks in English will take place every Wednesday at 4.30pm. Talks in Italian will take place every Saturday at 12pm (except 8 December, when the Museum will be closed). The thirty-minute talks are given by our expert Keats-Shelley House guides and provide an introduction to the house and its collection, to the lives and works of the poets to whom it is dedicated and to the history of Romanticism. They will certainly enhance your visit to the museum. There is no extra fee for the talks, which are included in the price of the ticket for the museum, and there's no need to book in advance. Just come along, enjoy, and learn! Price: The price is included in the entrance fee. Location: Salone. GUIDED TOUR IN ITALIAN 1 Dec 2012 from 12:00 to 12:30 Following the success of the Summer talks, the Keats-Shelley House will offer more guided tours of the museum during the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness". There will be two talks per week from October to December and they will be thus organized: Talks in English will take place every Wednesday at 4.30pm. Talks in Italian will take place every Saturday at 12pm (except 8 December, when the Museum will be closed). The thirty-minute talks are given by our expert Keats-Shelley House guides and provide an introduction to the house and its collection, to the lives and works of the poets to whom it is dedicated and to the history of Romanticism. They will certainly enhance your visit to the museum. There is no extra fee for the talks, which are included in the price of the ticket for the museum, and there's no need to book in advance. Just come along, enjoy, and learn! Price: The price is included in the entrance fee. Location: Salone. GUIDED TOUR IN ENGLISH 5 Dec 2012 from 16:30 to 17:00 Following the success of the Summer talks, the Keats-Shelley House will offer more guided tours of the museum during the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness". There will be two talks per week from October to December and they will be thus organized: Talks in English will take place every Wednesday at 4.30pm.