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.
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.
KEATS, BORGES AND THE NIGHTINGALE BOOK LAUNCH
6 Dec 2012 from 16:00 to 17:00
Today at 16.00 the Keats-Shelley House will launch its latest publication.
Titled Keats, Borges and the Nightingale, the book celebrates a manuscript that has just been put on display for the first time in our salone, and which contains a series of fascinating notes made by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges on one of John Keats's most famous poems, 'Ode to a Nightingale'. The book consists of a facsimile of the notes along with essays in both English and Italian, including a major one by Borges scholar Professor Jason Wilson.
Join us and Dr Elisabetta Vaccaro, a scholar in English and Spanish literature, who has specially transcribed the notes and who will talk through the process of unlocking their secrets.
The museum's standard entrance fee applies and refreshments will be served.
Advance booking is not required but please call (06 678 42 35) or email (info@keats-shelley- house.org) if you wish to reserve a place or find out more information.
Price:
The museum's standard entrance fee applies
Location:
Salone
GUIDED TOUR IN ENGLISH
12 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.
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
19 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.
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
22 Dec2012 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
8 Jan 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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
10 Jan 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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.
LAWRENCE CRUTCHER TALK AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, THURSDAY 10 JANUARY AT 18.30
10 Jan2013 from 18:30 to 20:00
On Thursday 10 January at 18.30 Lawrence Crutcher will be giving a talk about his recently published biography of John Keats's brother, titled George Keats of Kentucky: A Life (Topics in Kentucky History, 2012). Admittance to this event is free but as numbers are limited, advance booking is essential (06 678 42 35 / [email protected]).
John Keats's biographers have rarely been fair to George Keats (1797-1841) -- pushing him to the background as the younger brother, painting him as a prodigal son, or labeling him as the "business brother." Some have even condemned him as a heartless villain who took more than his fair share of an inheritance and abandoned the ailing poet to pursue his own interests. In this authoritative biography, author Lawrence M. Crutcher demonstrates that George Keats deserves better. Crutcher traces his subject from Regency London to the American frontier, correcting the misconceptions surrounding the Keats brothers' relationship and revealing the details of George's remarkable life in Louisville, Kentucky.
Brilliantly illustrated with more than ninety color photographs, this engaging book reveals how George Keats embraced new business opportunities to become an important member of the developing urban community. In addition, George Keats of Kentucky offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century life, commerce, and entrepreneurship in Louisville and the Bluegrass.
In 2006 Crutcher happened upon unpublished Keats family materials in Louisville which gave him the incentive to write George Keats. Its last chapter was originally conceived as an epilogue, detailing Keats’ descendants. Soon it became a book in its own right, The Keats Family, published in 2009.
Crutcher is a g-g-g-grandson of George Keats. Coincidentally he is a g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandson of Squire Boone, brother of Daniel Boone, making him a tenth generation Kentuckian.
Price:
Free
Location:
Cinema Room
GUIDED TOUR IN ITALIAN
12 Jan2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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
I LOVE ROMA - DOCUMENTARY PREMIÈRE 14 JANUARY 18.30PM FULLY BOOKED!
14 Jan 2013 from 18:30 to 20:00
The Keats-Shelley House would like to invite you to a special première of I LOVE ROME, a wonderful new documentary about Rome on Monday 14 January at 18.30 at Piazza di Spagna 26.
The documentary, which is the work of award-winning writer and documentary maker Luigi Ceccarelli, will be broadcast in Italian, with English subtitles (running time: 30 mins).
THE EVENT HAS BEEN FULLY BOOKED.
Price:
Free of charge (booking is necessary)
Location:
Cinema Room
GUIDED TOUR IN ENGLISH
15 Jan 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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
17 Jan 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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
19 Jan2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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
22 Jan 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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
24 Jan2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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
29 Jan 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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.
I LOVE ROMA - SECOND SHOWING TUE 29 JANUARY AT 6.30PM
29 Jan 2013 from 18:30 to 19:00
After the success of the première, The Keats-Shelley House is going to broadcast a second showing of I LOVE ROME , the wonderful new documentary about the eternal city, on Tuesday 29 January at 18.30 at Piazza di Spagna 26.
The documentary, which is the work of award-winning writer and documentary maker Luigi Ceccarelli, will be broadcast in Italian, with English subtitles (running time: 30 mins). Please find details attached.
THE EVENT HAS BEEN FULLY BOOKED
Price:
Free
Location:
Cinema Room
GUIDED TOUR IN ENGLISH
31 Jan 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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 Feb 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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
7 Feb 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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
9 Feb 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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
12 Feb 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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
14 Feb 2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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.
This post continues every Tuesday and Thursday until 28th March
POET LAUREATE CAROL ANN DUFFY AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, FEBRUARY 14 AT 7.30PM
14 Feb 2013 from 19:30 to 21:00
This Saint Valentine's Day UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy will be the special guest of the Keats- Shelley House, where she will launch Lo splendore del tempio (Crocetti Editore, 2012), a splendid new translation of her greatest love poems, which have been beautifully rendered into Italian by Floriana Marinzuli and Bernardino Nera.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FULLY BOOKED.
Price:
€10
Location:
Salone
GUIDED TOUR IN ITALIAN
16 Feb2013 from 17:00 to 17:30
The Keats-Shelley House offers guided tours of the museum. From January to March 2013 they will be thus organized:
Talks in English will take place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5pm.
Talks in Italian will take place on Saturdays at 5pm (for internal reasons it will not be possible to give talks in Italian every single Saturday, so if you are interested please double check the calendar before coming on purpose).
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.
This post continues every Saturday until 30th March
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION: 'VISIONARY FLOWERS', BY NANCY WATKINS - 18 FEBRUARY TO 4 MAY 2013
From 18 Feb 2013 to 4 May 2013 10:00-18:00
Chalices of light, star flowers, flowers of fire, mirages, arabesques and other wondrous flowers form a fantastical garden: the Visionary Flowers exhibit features the original grattage tablets of these drawings, published in Nancy Watkins' most recent book, Il fiore è un'idea, with rhymed legends by Lucio Persio (Il Labirinto, 2012).
The artworks have a clear thematic affinity with the extraordinary catalogue of flowers in Shelley's poem, 'The Question'. Likewise, their special technique - radiance erupting from the pitch-black of the ink - finds a singular parallel to the poem's instantaneous leap from the shadows of winter to refulgent spring, with its dazzling explosion of 'visionary flowers', from which the exhibition takes its title.
Nancy Watkins' artwork been featured on many book and magazine covers, including various editions of poems of Keats, Shelley and Byron. After her 2007 solo show, The Poet's Room, and the 2012 collective, Illustrating Keats, this is the third time that the American artist exhibits at the Keats- Shelley Museum. Born in Chicago, she lives in Rome.
Price:
Price is included in the ticket
Location:
Salone
This event runs until 4th May
MARK LUSSIER, "PROMETHEAN ENLIGHTENMENT", A TALK AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE MONDAY 11 MARCH 16.00
11 Mar2013 from 16:00 to 17:00
Mark Lussier, Professor of English at Arizona State University, will give a talk focusing on P. B. Shelley's lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound, arising from research he conducted while preparing his fascinating book Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe (Palgrave, 2011).
The museum's standard entrance fee applies and complimentary refreshments will be served after. Advance booking is not essential but please call on 06 678 4235 or contact us by email if you would like to have a seat reserved.
Price:
€5,00
Location:
Salone
VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF FLOWERS
20 Mar 2013 from 16:00 to 18:00
For the occasion of the Visionary Flowers exhibit of Nancy Watkins' artworks, the Keats-Shelley House will host a special reading on Wednesday 20 March, spring equinox:
Variations on the Theme of Flowers
'...bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring'. P.B. Shelley, 'The Question'
Annelisa Alleva, Michele Colafato, Francesco Dalessandro, Marco Vitale, Domenico Vuoto will read their works and translations. Gianfranco's Palmery's 'Apocryphal Keats' and Lucio Persio's rhymed legends, that accompany the exhibit's artworks, will be read by Keats-Shelley House Curator Giuseppe Albano. The event will be conducted in Italian and will end with a glass of Prosecco. Everyone is welcome and the museum's normal standard entrance fee applies.
Price:
Price is included in the entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
A SHAPE OF ERROR - FILM SHOWING
29 Mar2013 from 18:30 to 20:30
A SHAPE OF ERROR, an intriguing new film by American director Abigail Child, will be shown at the Keats-Shelley House this Easter. The film, which takes the form of an imaginary home movie, depicts the story of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, Mary, and is not to be missed.
Tickets cost €7.50 (€6.50 for the concessionary rate) and advance booking is essential by contacting us.
Friday 29 March, 18.30 - Advance Booking Required, complimentary refreshments served after, with talk by the director
Saturday 30 March, 11.00 - Advance Booking Required, with talk by the director
Saturday 30 March, 18.30 - Advance Booking Required, complimentary refreshments served after, with talk by the director
Price:
€7,50
Location:
Cinema Room
This event follows onto Sat 30th March
TOMASO KEMENY, POEMETTO GASTRONOMICO E ALTRI NUTRIMENTI - BOOK LAUNCH ON 10 APRIL AT 16.30
10 Apr2013 from 16:30 to 17:30
This event will be in Italian. If interested please check the Italian section.
Price:
Biglietto d'ingresso
Location:
Salone
SONATA 5 MAY
5 May 2013 from 18:00 to 19:30
SONATA, a recital composed by Ross Birrell and performed by members of the Da Vinci Trio and the Avos Quarter, taking place at the Non-Catholic Cemetery Rome, Sunday 5 May, 18.00.
SONATA is a composition for piano, cello and violin based upon the speech, poems and letters of three poets buried in the Non-Catholic Cemetery: the English Romantic poets John Keats (1795- 1821) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and the US Beat Poet, Gregory Corso (1930-2001).
As with traditional sonata form, the composition is in three movements:
I - Lift Me Up For I Am Dying
The first movement is an evolution of the composition, Lift Me Up For I Am Dying based upon the last spoken words of Keats, recorded in a letter by his friend Joseph Severn (later buried next to Keats). Lift Me Up For I Am Dying was originally commissioned in 2010 by the Swiss Institute in Rome as part of the exhibition Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession) curated by Adam Szymczyk and Salvatore Lacagnina and was performed on viola by Giorgia Franceschi at Keats’ graveside on Sunday, 9 May 2010.
II - Adonais - Adagio
The second movement is based upon lines from Shelley’s long poem of lament, Adonais, An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (1821). Shelley, who had also lived in the house on Piazza di Spagna in which Keats died, considered Adonais to be among his best compositions. When Shelley drowned in the Bay of Spezia he was found with a volume of Keats’ poems in his shirt pocket.
III - Letters from Rome
The final movement is based upon three letters written by Corso upon a visit to the graves of Keats and Shelley in the Non-Catholic Cemetery on the anniversary of Keats’ birthday in 1958. Corso’s letters were addressed to his fellow beat poets: Phillip Whalen, Allen Ginsburg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Corso’s ashes were buried at the foot of Shelley’s grave in the Non-Catholic Cemetery on 5 May 2001.
Sonata will be performed by members of the DaVinci Trio, Glasgow and Avos Quartet, Rome:
Violin: Tony Moffat, Leader of the Orchestra of Scottish Opera
Cello: Robert Irvine, Head of Chamber Music at the Royal Conservatoire, Scotland
Piano: Mario Montore, Leader of the Avos Quartet, Rome
The recital, which will be recorded on film, will be preceded by an introduction by Adam Szymczyk, Director of Kunsthalle Basel. Ross Birrell’s exhibition, Duet, is at Keats-Shelley House, Piazza di Spagna, 26, 13 May - 6 September 2013.
Price:
Free (donations are welcome).
Location:
Non-Catholic Cemetery, Via Caio Cestio 6, 00153, Rome.
DUET
From 18 May2013 to 31 Jul 2013 10:00-18:00
From 13 May and playing through the summer, the Keats-Shelley House will be hosting DUET, an exhibition dedicated to a piece of music composed by Scottish artist Ross Birrell and inspired by Keats's last words and final hours in Rome.
Visitors may begin their visit listening to and watching a specially filmed recital of 'Lift Me Up For I Am Dying", and they can also see plaster casts of the violinist's hands in the positions playing the five title notes, before proceeding to the room in which Keats died where they may read about Keats's last words and moments alive in the House.
Price:
Price is included in the entrance ticket.
Location:
Cinema Room
This event continues until 31st July.
THE SENSITIVE PLANT STRIKES AGAIN: HOW TO WRITE A MOVIE OUT OF A SHELLEY POEM
7 Jun2013 from 16:00 to 17:30
An interactive talk by scriptwriter Carlo Longo and actor David Brandon at the Keats-Shelley House, on their forthcoming Shelley-themed film Neverlake, to be released by One More Pictures.
Carlo Longo was born in 1963 in Rome. He studied literature and art history in Italy and Britain. He works as a scriptwriter and an author. In 2012 he wrote Neverlake, a supernatural thriller produced by One More Pictures and dealing with an American teenager who loves Shelley's poetry ends up in Arezzo among Etruscan mysteries and a dreadful secret from her father's past.
Price:
Price is included in the entrance ticket.
Location:
Salone
10 JUNE, MUSEUM CLOSED IN THE MORNING
10 Jun 2013 from 10:00 to 14:00
On Monday the 10th of June the Keats-Shelley House will be closed in the morning and will be reopening as normal in the afternoon between 2pm and 6pm. We apologise for any inconvenience.
PRE-RAPHAELITES PAINTING KEATS: A TALK BY JULIE CODELL AT KSH, 20 JUNE, 12 NOON
20 Jun 2013 from 12:00 to 13:00
Julie Codell will be discussing the influence John Keats had on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood on Thursday 20 June at 12 noon. The talk, entitled “Pre-Raphaelites Painting Keats”, will be a rare opportunity for a Rome-based audience to listen to the first-class scholar whose seminal 1995 article ‘Pre-Raphaelite Artists between Social Transgressions and Painterly Conventions’ set new standards for understanding Victorian visual culture.
Everybody is welcome but seats are limited so please contact us ([email protected] / 06 678 42 35) to reserve a place. Admittance to the talk is included in the ticket.
JulieCodell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University and affiliate faculty in English, Women's and Gender Studies, Film and Media Studies and Asian Studies. She wrote The Victorian Artist (2003; 2012) and edited Transculturation in British Art (2012), Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Durbars (2012), The Political Economy of Art (2008), Imperial Co-Histories (2003), and co-edited Encounters in the Victorian Press (2004), and Orientalism Transposed (1998), now being translated into Japanese (2014). She won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Yale Center for British Art, The Getty, The Huntington, the Ransom Humanities Center, and the American Institute for Indian Studies.
Price:
Admittance to the talk is included in the ticket
Location:
Salone
"NOVEL APPROACHES: WHAT FILM CAN TEACH YOU ABOUT WRITING A NOVEL"
21 Jun 2013 from 10:00 to 17:30
One-day creative writing course at the Keats-Shelley House hosted by Janice Graham, a New York Times best-selling author and screenwriter, and author of critically acclaimed Romancing Miss Brontë , written as Juliet Gael.
Places must be reserved in advance at the Keats-Shelley House gift shop.
For more details please click here.
Price:
€30 (€25 concessions)
Location:
Cinema Room / Terrace
This event continues on 22nd June.
ELIZABETH DENLINGER AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, THURS 27 JUNE 16.00
27 Jun 2013 from 16:00 to 17:00
"A Portion of the Loveliness: Emotional Experiences of Collecting Romantic Manuscripts from the 19th to the 21st Centuries"
Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger is the curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and his Circle at the New York Public Library. Previously, she worked on the publication of Shelley and his Circle, and at the Pierpont Morgan Library. She has written a number of essays on book and manuscript collecting, including an essay in Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a British Literary Family. She published Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era in 2005.
Price:
Free
Location:
Film Room
LADIES IN THE SPOTLIGHT - A TEMPORARY EXHIBITION AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, 9 SEPTEMBER - 22 NOVEMBER
From 9 Sep 2013 to 22 Nov 2013 10:00-18:00
Visitors to the Keats-Shelley House often ask what Mary Shelley's life was really like, especially following the death of her beloved husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley.
This new temporary exhibition will examine fragments of her life, and of other female figures connected with her. In turns tragic and melancholy, but always fascinating, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the real conditions of women's lives from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Visitors will also have the chance to see a series of eight manuscripts from the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford, on loan to the Keats-Shelley House among other treasures from our permanent collection, many of which have never been shown to the public before.
Price:
Entrance to the exhibition is included in the price of the admission ticket to the museum.
Location:
Terrace Room
This event continues until 22nd November.
LADIES IN THE SPOTLIGHT EXHIBITION OPENING - MONDAY 9 SEPTEMBER, 18.00
9 Sep 2013 from 18:00 to 19:00
Join us for the official opening of the Keats-Shelley House's autumn exhibition focusing on Mary Shelley and other women writers connected with her. Curator Giuseppe Albano will introduce the exhibition and period costume designer Andrea Sorrentino will tell us about the process of creating his Mary Shelley costume dress, which will also be on display alongside items from the Keats-Shelley House's own collection and from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
The exhibition opening is free but places must be reserved in advance.
Price:
Free - Booking required.
Location:
Salone
'HISTORY OF A SIX WEEKS TOUR' - A TALK BY SUSAN MILLER AT 16.00
20 Sep 2013 from 18:00 to 19:00
As part of our programme of events for the autumn Ladies in the Spotlight exhibition, Professor Susan Miller, from Tokyo Sport Science University, will talk about this fascinating travelogue, originally jointly published by the Shelleys, but subsequently republished under Mary Shelley's own name.
Advance booking is strongly recommended.
Price:
Free, but entrance to the exhibition after the talk incurs the museum's standard entrance fee.
Location:
Film Room
'THE QUESTION' - A TALK BY SUSAN MILLER AT 18.00
23 Sep 2013 from 16:00 to 17:00
Professor Susan Miller, from Tokyo Sport Science University, will give a talk on Percy Bysshe Shelley's beautiful poem 'The Question', and in the process will refer to a series of artworks by Rome-based artist Nancy Watkins, which were inspired by Shelley, and which were exhibited at the Keats-Shelley House earlier this year.
Price:
Free. Advance booking essential
Location:
Salone
LA FATA MATEMATICA
27 Sep 2013 from 19:00 to 20:00
La Fata Matematica - a new Italian-language play by Valeria Patera based on Lord Byron's daughter, Ada Lovelace, who was a pioneering mathematician and scientist. Sponsored by Department of Informatics Engineering Antonio Ruberti, University of Rome, La Sapienza
This performance is invitation only. If you are interested in attending please book a seat for the 28th of September, thanks.
Price:
€12,00. Prenotazione obbligatoria.
Location:
Salone
This event continues on 28th September.
LITERARY MYSTERY AUTHOR LYNN SHEPHERD TALKS AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
28 Sep2013 from 17:00 to 18:00
"The Last Secret of the Shelleys?"
Lynn Shepherd talks about her new novel A Treacherous Likeness.
Lynn Shepherd studied English at Oxford University, and later returned to do a doctorate on the 'father of the novel', Samuel Richardson. She had a career in the City and then in PR, and now works as a copywriter for companies. She has published three ‘literary mystery’ novels, inspired respectively by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and the lives of the Shelleys. The critically- acclaimed A Treacherous Likeness is published by Corsair in the UK, and by Random House in the US under the title A Fatal Likeness.
Price:
Free
Location:
Film Room
"P. B. SHELLEY AND THE FORCE AND SCIENCE OF MATTER AND LOVE" A TALK BY RICHARD SHA, PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE AT THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON DC
19 Oct2013 from 16:30 to 17:30
Shelley understood matter not in terms of extension and permanence, but instead in terms of dynamic force. Since matter was about change, the poet had to think about how human change is different from the changes within matter. Shelley likewise understood love as an attractive force in the world, present despite the fact that Prometheus is initially blind to its existence. Thinking about matter and love as forces in the world shapes his idealism and skepticism in ways that criticism is only beginning to notice.
A specialist in the relations between literature and science, Richard C. Sha is the author of many articles published across a range of leading journals. He is currently working on a book about how scientists understood the imagination during the Romantic period.
Price:
Museum standard entrance price applies
Location:
Salone
'COME UN INCANTESIMO': CARLA SANGUINETI AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER AT 4PM
11 Nov from 16:00 to 18:00
Monday 11th November at 4pm Carla Sanguineti will talk about her latest book Come un incantesimo: Percy e Mary Shelley nel Golfo dei Poeti (Edizioni KV Udine, 2011). The event will be in Italian and the admission is included in the entrance ticket.
Advance booking is not mandatory but highly recommended (06 678 42 35 / info@keats-shelley- house.org).
Carla Sanguineti is a writer and artist from Liguria, Italy. She is the President of the "Amiche e amici di Mary Shelley" association, which she founded in 1997 during the bicentenary of Mary Shelley's birthdate. The Comune of Lerici and the Comune of Viareggio are major cultural partners of the association.
Price:
Price is included in the entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
JANICE GRAHAM AT THE KSH, FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER AT 17.00
15 Nov 2013 from 17:00 to 18:00
As part of our programme of events for this autumn's temporary exhibition "Ladies in the Spotlight: Mary Shelley and the Romantic Circle", Janice Graham, a New York Times best-selling author and screenwriter, and author of critically acclaimed Romancing Miss Brontë, written as Juliet Gael, will talk at the Keats-Shelley House about her forthcoming historical novel based on Mary and Percy Shelley, which involves much historical intrigue as well as romance.
Advance booking not essential but recommended in order to reserve a seat.
Price:
Entrance included in the price of normal admission ticket / Il prezzo per la partecipazione all'evento è incluso nel biglietto d'ingresso
Location:
Salone
'KEATS VS. SHELLEY: THE ROSSETTIS, THE ROMANTICS AND SIBLING RIVALRY'. DINAH ROE AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
6 Dec2013 from 17:00 to 18:00
On Friday 6 December at 5pm Dinah Roe, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Oxford Brookes University), will give a talk about John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Rossetti family. The event is FREE and advance booking is recommended.
Dinah Roe is particularly interested in Victorian poetry, specifically that of the Pre-Raphaelites. She recently selected and introduced a collection of Pre-Raphaelite poetry for Penguin Classics, entitled The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin (2010). Her research into the work of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti led to her latest book, a biography of the Rossetti family entitled The Rossettis In Wonderland: A Victorian Family History (2011). For her next project, she is planning a book on the interactions of literary and visual arts in Pre-Raphaelite art, taking into account the influence of nineteenth-century literature on book illustration, painting and the decorative arts from 1848 to the turn of the century.
Price:
Free
Location:
Film Room
"L'ESTATE DI UN GHIRO": VINCENZO PATANÈ AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
13 Jan 2014 from 16:00 to 17:00
This event will be in Italian. Please see the Italian section for more information.
Price:
Il costo è incluso nel biglietto d'ingresso del museo.
Location:
Salone
TREASURE OF THE MONTH
1 Feb2014 from 17:00 to 17:20
From February 2014, every month the Keats-Shelley House will put the spotlight on a different object of its precious collection. The treasure of this month will be Joseph Severn's painting Shelley Composing 'Prometheus Unbound' in the Baths of Caracalla (1845), the largest work in our collection.
Today there will be a talk in Italian focusing on this painting. The talk will start at 5pm and will last about 20 minutes. The price is included in the entrance ticket.
For more information about this work, please click here.
Price:
Entrance ticket.
Location:
Salone
TREASURE OF THE MONTH
5 Feb2014 from 17:00 to 17:20
From February 2014, every month the Keats-Shelley House will put the spotlight on a different object of its precious collection. The treasure of this month will be Joseph Severn's painting Shelley Composing 'Prometheus Unbound' in the Baths of Caracalla (1845), the largest work in our collection.
Today there will be a talk in English focusing on this painting. The talk will start at 5pm and will last about 20 minutes. The price is included in the entrance ticket.
For more information about this work, please click here.
Price:
Entrance ticket.
Location:
Salone
TREASURE OF THE MONTH
12 Feb 2014 from 17:00 to 17:20
From February 2014, every month the Keats-Shelley House will put the spotlight on a different object of its precious collection. The treasure of this month will be Joseph Severn's painting Shelley Composing 'Prometheus Unbound' in the Baths of Caracalla (1845), the largest work in our collection.
Today there will be a talk in English focusing on this painting. The talk will start at 5pm and will last about 20 minutes. The price is included in the entrance ticket.
For more information about this work, please click here.
Price:
Entrance ticket.
Location:
Salone
JOHN KEATS'S LOVE LETTERS TO FANNY BRAWNE, A ST VALENTINE'S DAY READING AT THE KEATS- SHELLEY HOUSE, 14 FEBRUARY AT 16.30
14 Feb 2014 from 16:30 to 17:30
Join us for a thoroughly romantic afternoon at the Keats-Shelley House, sipping prosecco and listening to some of the most heartfelt love-letters in the English language, penned by Keats to his beloved Fanny Brawn.
Guy Mark Stott will play the role of Keats, and Giovanna Vincenti will read from the Italian translations of the letters.
Museum standard entrance ticket applies and advance booking recommended but not essential.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
TREASURE OF THE MONTH
15 Feb 2014 from 17:00 to 17:20
From February 2014, every month the Keats-Shelley House will put the spotlight on a different object of its precious collection. The treasure of this month will be Joseph Severn's painting Shelley Composing 'Prometheus Unbound' in the Baths of Caracalla (1845), the largest work in our collection.
Today there will be a talk in Italian focusing on this painting. The talk will start at 5pm and will last about 20 minutes. The price is included in the entrance ticket.
For more information about this work, please click here.
Price:
Entrance ticket.
Location:
Salone
TREASURE OF THE MONTH
19 Feb 2014 from 17:00 to 17:20
From February 2014, every month the Keats-Shelley House will put the spotlight on a different object of its precious collection. The treasure of this month will be Joseph Severn's painting Shelley Composing 'Prometheus Unbound' in the Baths of Caracalla (1845), the largest work in our collection.
Today there will be a talk in English focusing on this painting. The talk will start at 5pm and will last about 20 minutes. The price is included in the entrance ticket.
For more information about this work, please click here.
Price:
Entrance ticket.
Location:
Salone
'IL “FANCIULLINO” NEL BOSCO DI TOLKIEN': SIMONETTA BARTOLINI AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
25 Feb 2014 from 16:00 to 17:00
This event will be in Italian. Please check the Italian section for more information.
Price:
Gratis (Prenotazione obbligatoria)
Location:
Film Room
TREASURE OF THE MONTH
26 Feb 2014 from 17:00 to 17:20
From February 2014, every month the Keats-Shelley House will put the spotlight on a different object of its precious collection. The treasure of this month will be Joseph Severn's painting Shelley Composing 'Prometheus Unbound' in the Baths of Caracalla (1845), the largest work in our collection.
Today there will be a talk in English focusing on this painting. The talk will start at 5pm and will last about 20 minutes. The price is included in the entrance ticket.
For more information about this work, please click here.
Price:
Entrance ticket.
Location:
Salone
TREASURE OF THE MONTH
1 Mar2014 from 17:00 to 17:20
From February 2014, every month the Keats-Shelley House will put the spotlight on a different object of its precious collection. The treasure of this month will be Joseph Severn's painting Shelley Composing 'Prometheus Unbound' in the Baths of Caracalla (1845), the largest work in our collection.
Today there will be a talk in Italian focusing on this painting. The talk will start at 5pm and will last about 20 minutes. The price is included in the entrance ticket.
For more information about this work, please click here.
Price:
Entrance ticket.
Location:
Salone
This event happens again on 3rd 6th 12th 15th 19th 22nd 27th and 28th March.
"CHAOS & CLOCKS, FLASHES & FLOWERS: POETRY AND TRANSLATION" WITH POET MOIRA EGAN AND TRANSLATOR DAMIANO ABENI AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH 2014, 18.00
5 Mar2014 from 18:00 to 19:00
"Chaos & Clocks, Flashes & Flowers: Poetry and Translation" with poet Moira Egan and translator Damiano Abeni at the Keats-Shelley House, Wednesday 5 March 2014, 18.00
Egan will read from her most recent book, Hot Flash Sonnets (Passager Books), and from her forthcoming bi-lingual collection, Strange Botany/Botanica Arcana (peQuod). Abeni will read from his anthology, Caos, Pendole, Cocomeri (Edizioni l'Obliquo), a celebration of his 40 years' work of poetry in translation. The reading will be in English and Italian.
The museum's standard entrance ticket applies and advance booking is essential.
Price:
€5,00
Location:
Salone
"SOMETHING SHIMMERS, SOMETHING IS HUSHED UP" A KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE POETRY WORKSHOP, MARCH - APRIL 2014
15 Mar 2014 from 10:00 to 13:00
The Keats-Shelley House is delighted to present a series of poetry-writing workshops led by Rome- based American poet Moira Egan. The series of four workshops will take place at the Keats-Shelley House on the following days:
Saturday 15 March, 10.00 - 13.00
Saturday 22 March, 10.00 - 13.00
Saturday 29 March, 10.00 - 13.00
Saturday 5 April, 10.00 - 13.00
The price of the workshops is €150 per person, and advance booking is essential.
“Something shimmers, something is hushed up”: a poetry workshop
An effective poem walks a fine line between precision and mystery, using vivid imagery to take the reader to an unexpected place of wonder and, often, delight. Keats himself described the state of “Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” In this workshop, students will produce and discuss their own poems with an eye toward that fine line between clarity of imagery and mystery of metaphor. Writing prompts (optional), gentle but thorough criticism, and camaraderie with other dedicated poets will encourage progress along each student’s path.
(line from John Ashbery’s poem, “This Room”)
Moira Egan has been teaching literature and creative writing for more than twenty years. Her students have won numerous awards, and have published chapbooks, full-length poetry collections, and in many literary journals and anthologies. Moira’s sixth poetry collection, Strange Botany/Botanica Arcana, will be published by Pequod in 2014. Her previous collections are Hot Flash Sonnets (Passager Books, 2013), Spin (Entasis Press, 2010); Bar Napkin Sonnets (The Ledge, 2009); La Seta della Cravatta/The Silk of the Tie (Edizioni l’Obliquo, 2009); and Cleave (WWPH, 2004).
Moira’s work has won many awards and has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad, including Best American Poetry 2008, The Book of Forms, and Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics. With her husband, Damiano Abeni, she has published more than a dozen volumes in translation in Italy, by authors such as Ashbery, Barth, Bender, Ferlinghetti, Hecht, Strand, and others. Their translations of Italian poems into English are published in many U.S. journals and in the FSG Book of 20th Century Italian Poetry and in Patrizia Cavalli’s My Poems Will Not Change the World (FSG). She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, and Columbia University. If you're thinking of enrolling, there is an opportunity to meet Moira and her husband, Damiano Abeni, at the Keats-Shelley House on Wednesday 5 March at 18.00, where they will give a reading of their work and also answer any questions you might have about the workshop beginning on 15 March.
Price:
€150,00
Location:
Film Room
This event happens again on the 22nd and 29th march and also 5th april
TREASURE OF THE MONTH
2 Apr2014 from 17:00 to 17:20
From February 2014, every month the Keats-Shelley House will put the spotlight on a different object of its precious collection. The treasure of this month will be the manuscript fragments of 'Lamia', by John Keats.
Today there will be a talk in Italian focusing on this object. The talk will start at 5pm and will last about 20 minutes. The price is included in the entrance ticket.
For more information about this work, please click here.
Price:
Price is included in the entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
This event continues every Wednesday and Saturday utill July 30th.
ENOCH ARDEN, A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, 10 AND 11 MAY 2014
10 May 2014 from 19:00 to 20:00
The Keats-Shelley House is celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of late Romantic composer Richard Strauss's birth with a double performance of "Enoch Arden" (op. 38, 1897), the melologue for spoken voice and piano that he composed after Lord Tennyson's eponymous narrative poem.
LUCA COLUCCI, spoken voice MARIO MONTORE, piano
Saturday 10 May, 7pm
Sunday 11 May, 5pm
For bookings please contact the Keats-Shelley House ([email protected] / 06 678 42 35).
LUCA COLUCCI nasce a Roma il 20 Settembre 1987. Il suo percorso artistico ha inizio nel 2011 quando, dopo aver frequentato il corso di recitazione, dizione e doppiaggio presso la "Globus Cinematografica", lavora come doppiatore per film e serie televisive (Squadra speciale Vienna, Rebelde Way, El Refugio). Collabora come speaker per radio locali e web-radio, conducendo notiziari e programmi musicali. Dal 2012 è allievo della scuola di recitazione "Fondamenta". Si cimenta in rappresentazioni teatrali e come figurante per produzioni destinate al cinema e alla televisione.
MARIO MONTORE, nato a Cosenza nel 1985, si diploma giovanissimo col massimo dei voti, lode e menzione d'onore e successivamente consegue il Diploma di perfezionamento presso l'Accademia di Santa Cecilia sempre con lode. Vincitore di oltre quaranta concorsi solistici nazionali ed internazionali, raggiunge notorietà internazionale per la sua intensissima attività di camerista con il Quartetto Avos, formazione con cui si è aggiudicato nel 2009 i due più importanti Concorsi di Musica da Camera italiani (Premio Gui di Firenze e Premio Trio di Trieste) e con la quale si è esibito nelle più rinomate istituzioni concertistiche italiane ed estere. Collabora con la nota casa discografica Brilliant Classic. Insegna Pianoforte Principale presso il Conservatorio “Santa Cecilia” di Roma.
Price:
€15,00 (concessions for under 18 and over 65 €12,00)
Location:
Salone
This event also happens again on the 11th.
"SHELLEY AND THE RISE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES": A TALK BY SANDRA DUCIC-COLLETTE AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, TUESDAY 20 MAY, 17.00
20 May 2014 from 17:00 to 18:00
Sandra Ducic-Collette will talk about the relations between Shelley’s conception of poetry and the idea of technological innovation and modernity that was revolutionizing western life.
Tuesday 20 May, 17.00
Booking recommended but not essential.
Sandra Dučic-Collette is a scholar and translator who studied Classical Philology in ex-Yugoslavia (Novi-Sad), Canada (Université de Montréal), Germany (DAAD) and Austria (Universität Wien). As a Culture Communication Fund B.V. Fellow (2004-05), she researched the ancient Japanese conception of the garden (in the Japanese court of the Heian period) at the International Research Institute for the Humanities in Nichibunken (Kyoto, Japan). She has a wide range of research interests and expertise, from ancient concepts of love to the influence of Plato on Hölderlin and Shelley. Her current research embraces several themes in the history of art and literature, including the poetry of Dante and of the Romantic movement, as well as the aesthetic theories of Raphael and Castiglione. She is currently also working on several translations into Serbian of studies by C.L. Frommel on Raphael and Pope Julius II, as well as Shelley’s poetry.
Price:
Free
Location:
Film Room
WATCHER OF THE SKIES - A NEW POETIC PRODUCTION WRITTEN FOR AND PERFORMED AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, FRIDAY 23 AND SATURDAY 24 MAY
23 May 2014 from 19:00 to 20:10
To celebrate the bicentenary of Keats's earliest extant poem, 'Imitation of Spenser', this year's spring performance at the Keats-Shelley House has been specially written by award-winning poet Helen Burke and fellow poets Rose Drew, Alan Gillott and Tanya Nightingale. It will take place on:
Friday 23 May at 19.00
Saturday 24 May at 19.00
The show lasts approximately 70 minutes and tickets, which must be reserved in advance, cost €12 (or €10 concessions for visitors under 18 or over 65)
'The Watcher of the Skies is a brand new show, devised and performed by four poets and one musician.This is a 70 minute show, written for the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, and is poem-rich in all aspects of Keats's life , from his childhood to his last months in Rome.Keats is a captivating, engaging and charismatic figure and the diverse nature of the poems reflects this. There is also music to entertain the audience – and none of the poems or music have been heard before.It is hoped that the show does the young poet justice in the spectacular setting of the Keats-Shelley House right in the heart of Rome.'
Left to right: Rose Drew, Helen Burke, Tanya Nightingale and Alan Gillott sat behind.
Musician Robert Nightingale.
Price:
€12 / €10
Location:
Salone
This event happens again on the 24th May.
MICHAEL FARRELL POETRY READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, FRIDAY 27 JUNE, 17.00
27 Jun 2014 from 17:00 to 18:00
Join us on Friday the 27th of June at 5pm when Australian poet Michael Farrell will read some of his work in English, and Italian translations will also be read. The reading will take place in the Salone of the Keats-Shelley House.
Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, New South Wales. He has published several books and chapbooks, including Ode Ode (Salt), A Raiders Guide and Open Sesame (Giramondo), Thempark (Book Thug), Thou Sand (Tinfish), Enjambment Sisters Prese t (Black Rider), Same! Same! Same! Same! (Sus) and a poetry comic book BREAK ME OUCH (3 Deep). He also coedited, together with Jill Jones, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets (Puncher and Wattmann).
Michael was a Menzies fellow at the University of Kent, and an Australia Council BR Whiting studio resident in Rome in 2014. He has a PhD in Australian literature from the University of Melbourne.
Numbers are limited to 25 so advance booking is recommended.
Price:
The museum's standard entrance fee applies.
Location:
Salone
MUSEUM CLOSED 15-16 AUGUST
From 15 Aug 2014 to 17 Aug 2014 10:00-18:00
This is to inform all our visitors that the Keats-Shelley House will be closed on Friday the 15th and Saturday the 16th of August. It will reopen regularly on Monday the 18th of August at 10am. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Location:
This event continues through 17th August.
TREASURE OF THE MONTH
3 Sep 2014 from 17:00 to 17:20
From February 2014, every month the Keats-Shelley House will put the spotlight on a different object of its precious collection. The treasure of this month will be Oscar Wilde's manuscript of the sonnet 'The Grave of Keats'.
Today there will be a talk in Italian focusing on this object. The talk will start at 5pm and will last about 20 minutes. The price is included in the entrance ticket.
For more information about this work, please click here.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
This event repeats every Wednesday and Saturday until 20th December.
ROBERT BROWNING, REPORTING FROM ROME: A NEW TEMPORARY EXHIBITION AT THE KEATS- SHELLEY HOUSE, 22 SEPTEMBER - 28 FEBRUARY
From 22 Sep 2014 to 28 Feb 2015 10:00-18:00
Robert Browning, Reporting from Rome, the autumn/winter temporary exhibition at the Keats- Shelley House, opens on Monday 22 September 2014 and runs till Saturday 28 February 2015 .
The exhibition examines the story of English poet Robert Browning (1812-1889) during his time living in Italy and after he left, and includes a series of portraits and artefacts loaned to us by the Provost & Fellows of Eton College, which are grouped together in our Cabinet of Curiosities. Among these items are the stunning eighteenth-century engagement ring that Browning gave to his beloved Elizabeth Barrett, and his calling-card case together with the cards he received from Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and others.
The main narrative of Browning's Italian life will be woven together by a collection of fifteen autograph letters by the poet himself addressed to American sculptor William Story, which detail various aspects of society, politics, and life and the ways in which Italy influenced him during the 1850s and 1860s. These letters were presented to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association by Mrs Waldo Story in June 1915 and will be the first time ever that they have been on public display.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Terrace Room
This event continues and ends on the 28th Feb 2015.
AN EVENING WITH LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT ON D'ANNUNZIO AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE: THURSDAY 9 OCTOBER FROM 18.30
9 Oct2014 from 18:30 to 19:30
On Thursday 9 October at 18.30, British cultural historian and biographer Lucy Hughes-Hallett will be joining us for an evening devoted to the charismatic, controversial poet Gabriele D'Annunzio.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett will read from and talk about her best-selling biography, The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War, which, among its accolades, was winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the 2013 Costa Book Awards Biography of the Year.
The event will be in English and followed by a prosecco reception with the author.
Copies of the book will be on sale in our gift shop. Tickets for the event cost €8 and must be purchased in advance through the Keats-Shelley House ([email protected]; 06 678 42 35).
Click here for more information on Lucy Hughes-Hallett and her work on D'Annunzio.
Price:
€8.00
Location:
Salone
PROGRAMME FOR THE 31 OCTOBER 2014 KEATS SEMINAR
31 Oct2014 from 14:00 to 18:00
BOOK YOUR PLACE FOR OUR AUTUMN 2014 KEATS SEMINAR
John Keats’s Early Poems, 1814-1817
An Academic Seminar organized by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Keats Foundation, and supported by the British School at Rome
31 October 2014 at the KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, Rome
In order to mark the bicentenary of the composition of ‘Imitation of Spenser’ (1814), John Keats’s earliest known poem, the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Keats Foundation are jointly hosting an afternoon academic seminar on 31 October , Keats’s birthday, at the Keats- Shelley House in Rome.
The registration fee is €25, which includes refreshments and prosecco reception, and full details of the papers and speakers can be seen here.
In order to place your booking, please call 0039 06 678 42 35 or write to [email protected]
General visitors are informed that on 31 October 2014 the museum will be only open between 10an and 1pm. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Price:
€25.00
Location:
Salone
IL VIAGGIO DEI ROMANTICI ALLA RICERCA DELLA FELICITA': LUIGI GIANNITRAPANI AT THE KEATS- SHELLEY HOUSE
4 Dec 2014 from 16:30 to 18:00
This event will be in Italian. Please check the Italian section of this page for more information.
Price:
Biglietto d'ingresso
Location:
Salone
CHRISTMAS BOOK SALE AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
11 Dec 2014 from 18:30 to 20:00
On 11 December from 18.30 till 20.00 the Keats-Shelley House will be holding a book sale in our salone, selling a range of poetry, fiction, biography and history titles in both English and Italian at specially discounted prices. To keep everyone feeling refreshed, there will also be complimentary mince pies and mulled wine available in our downstairs area.
Attendance at the fair is free and you can drop in at any time between 18.30 and 20.00 but advance booking is recommended
Price:
Free
Location:
Salone
TREASURE OF THE MONTH
4 Feb2015 from 17:00 to 17:20
Every month the Keats-Shelley House will put the spotlight on a different object of its precious collection. This month's treasure will be the scallop shell/ reliquary containing locks of hair of John Milton and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Today there will be a talk in English dedicated to this object. The talk will start at 5pm and will last about 20 minutes. The price is included in the entrance ticket.
For more information about this work, please click here.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
This event continues every Wednesday and Saturday until May 30th 2015.
ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: A SPECIAL ST. VALENTINE'S EVENING EVENT AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY, 18.15-19.30
14 Feb 2015 from 18:15 to 19:30
Please join us for a reading, in both English and Italian, of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's extraordinary love poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese , dedicated to Robert Browning.
The evening, organized in conjunction with the Edizioni Il Labirinto, will feature four poets and actors - Annelisa Alleva, Francesco Dalessandro, Michael Fitzpatrick, Claire Serpi - who will give voice to the Sonnets from the Portuguese, as well as a brief introductory talk by the Curator of the Keats-Shelley House on February's Treasure of the Month: a scallop-shell reliquary containing locks of John Milton's and Elizabeth Barrett's Browning's hair, once owned by Robert Browning, and will finish with a St Valentine's brindisi.
This will be one of the last opportunities to catch the Keats-Shelley House's winter temporary exhibition 'Robert Browning, Reporting from Rome', which examines the story of English poet Robert Browning (1812-1889) during his time living in Italy and after he left, and includes a series of portraits and artefacts loaned to us by the Provost & Fellows of Eton College, grouped together in our Cabinet of Curiosities. Among these items is the stunning eighteenth-century engagement ring that Browning gave to his beloved Elizabeth Barrett.
Tickets cost €10.00 and must be purchased in advance. For more information: 06 678 42 35; [email protected]
Price:
€10.00
Location:
Salone
JOHN CHALLIS - POETRY READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, THURSDAY 26TH FEBRUARY AT 5 PM
26 Feb 2015 from 17:00 to 18:00
British poet and playwright John Challis will give a reading of his work at the Keats-Shelley House on Thursday 26th February at 5 pm. John will read some of his published poems and also some of his work in progress composed during his creative writing residence at the Keats-Shelley House.
The standard entrance ticket to the museum applies and advance booking is recommended.
John Challis was born in London in 1984 and is currently in the final stages of a Creative Writing PhD at Newcastle University on contemporary poetry and Film Noir. In 2012 he was awarded a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North to help develop his first collection. His work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies and most recently on BBC Radio 4's 'The Echo Chamber'. John also runs the Newcastle based poetry and theatre events company, Trashed Organ. His debut play, ‘The Next Train to Depart’ premiered at Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham, in January 2014.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
PERFUMED MELODIES: CATHERINE MAXWELL AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
26 Mar 2015 from 18:30 to 20:00
On Thursday the 26th of March at 6.30pm Catherine Maxwell will deliver a talk titled Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field. The talk will contain a large discussion on Shelley and also some references to Keats.
The price will be €10.00 and bookings are mandatory since available seats are limited ([email protected]; 06 678 42 35).
Catherine Maxwell is Professor of Victorian Literature at Queen Mary, University of London, and author of The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (Manchester UP, 2001), Swinburne (Northcote House, 2006), and Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (Manchester UP, 2008). A Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2014-16), she is working on a monograph on perfume in Victorian literary culture for Oxford University Press.
Price:
€10.00
Location:
Salone
DICKENS IN CARRARA: MARZIA DATI AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
7 Apr2015 from 17:00 to 18:00
This event will be in Italian. Please check the Italian section for more information
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
ROBERTO FERRARI ON THE WELSH SCULPTOR JOHN GIBSON
23 Apr 2015 from 17:00 to 18:00
On Thursday the 23rd of April at 5pm Dr Roberto Ferrari will deliver a talk on the Welsh sculptor John Gibson (1790-1866), an outstanding Canova pupil who met Joseph Severn while in Rome and is buried at the Non-Catholic Cemetery. The talk is titled "From Mars and Cupid to the Tinted Venus: The Sculptor John Gibson and His Studio in Rome".
The price is included in the entrance ticket but available seats are limited so bookings are recommended (06 678 42 35; [email protected]).
Roberto C. Ferrari is the Curator of Art Properties at Columbia University in New York, where he oversees the university art collection. He holds a Ph.D. in art history and specializes in 19th- century British painting and sculpture. He previously worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and has taught art history at Drew University and Marymount Manhattan College.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
AN EVENING WITH LUCINDA DICKENS HAWKSLEY AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, TUESDAY 28 APRIL, 18.30
28 Apr 2015 from 18:30 to 20:00
Special guest Lucinda Hawksley will talk on Dickens's Travels in Italy , inspired by her great, great, great grandfather Charles Dickens whose insights into Italy were collected in his 1846 travelogue Pictures from Italy.
The talk will be followed by a prosecco reception in the company of the author, and some copies of her recent books will also be on sale.
Tickets cost €12 and must be booked in advance by contacting us.
Critically acclaimed author and lecturer Lucinda Hawksley's biography of Lizzie Siddal, which has met with great success and critical acclaim in English, is also published in Italy by Odova: http://www.odoya.it/index.php?main_page=product_book_info&products_id=586 and her biography of Princess Louise was also published by Odoya in December:http://www.odoya.it/index.php?main_page=product_book_info&products_id=752 Her latest book Moustaches, Whiskers & Beards was recently published by the National Portrait Gallery. This and more information can be seen on her website: www.lucindahawksley.com.
Price:
€12.00
Location:
Salone
INSPIRED BY ITALY: THE ROMANTIC POETS IN SONG - A CONCERT FOR THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE THURSDAY 28TH MAY AT 7.30PM SANTA MARIA DEL PRIORATO
28 May 2015 from 19:30 to 21:30
Inspired by Italy - The Romantic Poets in Song
A Concert for the Keats-Shelley House on Thursday 28th May at 7.30pm Santa Maria del Priorato
A rare opportunity to experience a suite of songs which together attest to the influence of Italy on the minds and hearts of the Romantic poets. All proceeds will go directly to the Keats-Shelley House, an internationally treasured museum and library that receives no public funding from either the UK or from Italy.
Composers include Strauss, Mendelssohn, Wolf, Quilter, Ireland, Britten, Respighi, and Parry, whose songs celebrate the works of Keats, Shelley, Byron and others.
Tickets cost €30 for the production, or €45 for a ticket that also includes a VIP reception held in the company of the Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and international dignitaries.
Chris Elliott: tenor, Ingrid Sawers: pianist
RSVP by 31st March 2015 [email protected]/ 06 678 42 35
Price:
€30 - €45
Location:
Santa Maria del Priorato
LORD BYRON IN THE HAND OF MARY SHELLEY - A TEMPORARY EXHIBITION AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
From 29 Jun 2015 to 6 Nov 2015 10:00-18:00
'Lord Byron in the Hand of Mary Shelley' is the summer/ autumn temporary exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House, running from 29 June till 6 November 2015.
The exhibition - which features a sequence of manuscripts on loan from the National Library of Scotland alongside Byron treasures from our own collection - explores Mary Shelley's copying out of Byron's work, preparing it for publication. In doing so, it will attempt also to tease out the fascinating relationship between these two giants of Romantic literature.
Entrance to the exhibition is included in the price of the standard museum entrance ticket.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Terrace Room
This event continues to run until 6th November 2015. KEVIN BROPHY READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE THURSDAY 2 JULY AT 17.00
2 Jul 2015 from 17:00 to 18:00
KEVIN BROPHY READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE Thursday 2 July at 17.00
In the Salone, entrance included in the price of the standard museum ticket.
Kevin Brophy will read a selection of his poems - both published and new - in the Salone of the Keats-Shelley House. Kevin is the current holder of the prestigious poet-in-residence fellowship of the Australia Council B. R. Whiting Studio in Rome. He is the third B. R. Whiting Studio Fellow in recent years to read for us, following Simon West and Michael Farrell.
Kevin Brophy lives and writes in Melbourne, Australia. He is at present poet-in-residence at the Australia Council B. R. Whiting Studio in Rome. Kevin is the author of thirteen books of fiction, poetry and essays, including Walking: New and Selected Poems (John Leonard Press 2013), which was shortlisted for the WA Premiers Prize for Poetry. He was 2009 co-winner of the Calibre Prize for an outstanding essay. His collection of short fiction, What Men and Women Do, was runner-up for the Christina Stead Award, and in 2005 he was awarded the Martha Richardson medal for poetry. His poems, stories and essays have appeared in several Best Australian anthologies of the past decade. From 1980 to 1994 he was founding co-editor of Going Down Swinging with Myron Lysenko. He is patron of the Melbourne Poets Union and a life member of Writers Victoria. He is a Professor at the University of Melbourne where he teaches Creative Writing.
Booking not essential but recommended.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS INSPIRED BY THE SUMMER/AUTUMN TEMPORARY EXHIBITION AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
7 Jul 2015 from 10:30 to 12:00
LORD BYRON IN THE HAND OF MARY SHELLEY - Two special educational workshops inspired by the summer/autumn temporary exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House.
The workshops are open to all students aged 12 or over, as well as adults. Please specify your age when booking.
The workshops will be taught in English, though we may be able to schedule workshops in Italian too by special request.
To book your place on one of the workshops please contact us indicating your preferred workshop (A or B) and a first and second choice of dates.
WORKSHOP A
The Cult of Byron: Image and Reality This workshop draws on the various representations we have of Byron, the stories that surround them, and some selected poems that capture and perpetuate his image. Byron will be examined through his self-cultivation of a novel kind of cultural celebrity which is now very much part of our daily lives and which still influences the way we perceive genius, youth, transgression and heroism. The workshop will involve a slightly postmodern take on the cult of the Romantics, inspiring participants to create new poetry out of Byron's own life and work but also bringing them face to face with their own preconceptions about celebrity today.
Dates of Workshop A
Thursday July 9th at 10.30 Thursday August 6th at 10.30 Thursday September 10th at 10.30
WORKSHOP B
Byron, Mary Shelley and Early Nineteenth-Century Feminism
This workshop will begin to examine the relationship between Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, two of the most interesting figures in the Romantic movement. It will be based on items displayed during the exhibition and will allow participants to have special access to facsimiles of items on display. The session will include close readings of letters and literary manuscripts from the collection of the Keats-Shelley House as well as from the National Library of Scotland. The aim will be to consider the creative process involved in Mary Shelley's copying out of Byron's manuscripts, and by extension the relationship between them and the wider role of women in the Romantic period.
Dates of Workshop B
Tuesday 7th July at 10.30 Tuesday 21st July at 10.30
Tuesday 4th August at 10.30
Open to all age groups and advance booking required.
Price €12 or €10 (for students under 18 or over 65) for 1.5 hour workshop. Price includes visit to the museum and exhibition itself.
ARTandSEEK has been founded to offer educational programs for children and adults in English. We believe that art is not only about art: our kids can develop critical thinking, language skills, interpersonal communication and have fun at the same time just by learning to LOOK and TALK about what they SEE in a museum. Our programs are not only about taking a tour through a museum, they are mainly about communicating our thoughts using art as a tool. We also focus on practical art workshops inspired by the themes we explore with each program, helping children and adults to experience different activities and to be part of a lively discussion facilitated by inquiry open-ended questions. www.artandseekforkids.com
Price:
€10 or €12
Location:
Salone
Please see this event to see what dates they need to be added to the calendar in the future. RON SMITH'S TALK IS BEING RESCHEDULED
16 Jul 2015 from 17:00 to 18:00
THIS TALK WILL NO LONGER TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY 16 JULY. PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE TO [email protected] TO BE NOTIFIED ABOUT THE NEW DATE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.
On Thursday 16 July at 5 pm Ron Smith will read a selection of his published and new poems, including works inspired by John Keats.
Ron Smith is the Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is the author of the books:
Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery, Its Ghostly Workshop, Moon Road: Poems 1986-2005, and the forthcoming volume The Humility of the Brutes.
Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery was judged by Margaret Atwood "a close runner-up" for the National Poetry Series Open Competition and was subsequently published by University Presses of Florida. Ron Smith’s work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Nation, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Kansas Quarterly, Blackbird, Puerto del Sol, and Plume. His poems have also appeared in a number of anthologies published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Italy.
In 2005 Smith was an inaugural winner of the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize; in 2006 he became one of the Curators for that prize. He's the recipient of Southern Poetry Review’s Guy Owen Prize (judge, Linda Pastan), Poetry Northwest’s Theodore Roethke Prize, and many other awards. He is Writer-in- Residence at St. Christopher’s School, where he holds the George Squires Chair of Distinguished Teaching.
Smith holds degrees in Philosophy, English, General Humanities, and Creative Writing from University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University (B.A., M.A., M.H. M.F.A.) and has studied British drama at Oxford University, writing at Bennington College, and Renaissance and Modernist culture at the Ezra Pound Center for Literature in Merano, Italy.
Ron Smith grew up Savannah, Georgia. He attended college on a football scholarship, playing for the Tangerine Bowl Championship University of Richmond Spiders, the first-ever “Team of Distinction” to be inducted into the Spider Sports Hall of Fame. Since 2009, he has been Poetry Editor for Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
A MARGINAL INTEREST?: BYRON AND THE FINE ARTS - RICHARD LANSDOWN AT THE KEATS- SHELLEY HOUSE
30 Jul 2015 from 17:00 to 18:00
Join us on Thursday 30 July at 5pm for a talk on Lord Byron and the fine arts, which will be delivered by Professor Richard Lansdown.
Booking is not mandatory and the price is included in the entrance ticket.
Richard Lansdown is Associate Professor of English at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia. He is a member of the editorial board of the Keats-Shelley Review, and is the author of Byron's Historical Dramas and the Cambridge Introduction to Byron, as well as numerous articles on nineteenth- century English literature. His new selection from Byron's remarkable letters and journals was published by Oxford University Press in April this year.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
ANNE AMISON AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
8 Oct 2015 from 17:00 to 18:00
BYRON, THE SHELLEYS, ITALY A talk by Anne Amison at the Keats-Shelley House, Thursday 8 October at 17.00
Anne Amison is a British teacher and author based in Venice, a city that inspired her recent book titled Byron – Venice: An English Milord in Europe & Italy published by the San Marco Press in 2013.
Booking is not essential but is recommended.
Entrance to the talk is included in the standard museum entrance ticket.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
BRIGHT STAR - AN EVENING OF KEATS'S LOVE LETTERS AND POEMS PERFORMED BY RUTH ROSEN
21 Oct 2015 from 18:30 to 19:30
BRIGHT STAR - An evening of John Keats's love letters and poems performed by Ruth Rosen at the Keats-Shelley House
Wednesday 21 October, 6.30 pm, followed by prosecco.
Award-winning performer Ruth Rosen's acclaimed Bright Star performance is based on a selection of all of Keats's writing, including his love letters to Fanny and the love poems. The poetry includes the great Odes, extracts from Endymion, sonnets and other poems. There are also extracts from his letters to his family and friends; and it is all woven together to tell the extraordinary, very moving and inspiring story of this young genius, his struggles, his great creativity and at the same time his emerging and developing psyche.
Tickets cost €10 and must be purchased in advance (06 678 42 35; [email protected])
Price:
€10.00
Location:
Salone
AIRY CITADELS: A POETRY WORKSHOP (READING AND WRITING) TO CELEBRATE THE 220TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF JOHN KEATS
31 Oct2015 from 10:00 to 18:00
Airy citadels: A poetry workshop (reading and writing) to celebrate the 220th anniversary of the birth of John Keats
Keats-Shelley House - Saturday, 31 October, 2015 - 10 am – 6 pm
Total Price per student: €45
Numbers are limited so please contact us to reserve a place
“It appears to me that almost any man may, like the spider, spin from his own innards his own airy citadel,” John Keats wrote in a letter to John Hamilton Reynolds. That literally visceral image is an apt description for our pursuits during this day-long workshop, celebrating the birth of John Keats.
We will spend the morning reading and discussing some of Keats’s poems, both the “greatest hits” and some of the lesser-known works, as well as taking some inspirational thoughts and images from his letters.
There will be a break from 1 pm until 3 pm, at which time participants are encouraged to have a light lunch in the area and then spend time working on some original writing, inspired by the morning’s texts and conversations.
From 3 pm until 6 pm, we will reconvene for a workshop discussion of the participants’ own work. Participants are encouraged to dive right in with new work that will have been produced during the break; they are also welcome to bring along work that has already been written.
As Keats wrote, "Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced" (in a letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 1819). Please join us for the enjoyable and educational experience of examining poetry from the inside-out, and then making real the work of your own experience and imagination.
Moira Egan has been teaching literature and creative writing for more than twenty years. The author of six poetry collections (most recently Botanica Arcana/Strange Botany, 2014, and Hot Flash Sonnets, 2013), she is finishing work on her seventh book, Synæsthesium. Moira’s work has won many awards and has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad, including Best American Poetry 2008; Measure for Measure; The Book of Form;and Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics. With her husband, Damiano Abeni, she has published more than a dozen volumes in translation in Italy, by authors such as Ashbery, Barth, Bender, Ferlinghetti, Hecht, Strand, and others. Their translations of Italian poems into English are published in many U.S. journals and in the FSG Book of 20th Century Italian Poetry and in Patrizia Cavalli’s My Poems Will Not Change the World (FSG).
Moira has held fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (as Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow); St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Malta; the Civitella Ranieri Center; the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center; and the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT. She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, and Columbia University, where James Merrill chose her graduate manuscript for the David Craig Austin Prize.
Price:
€45.00
Location:
Film Room
'THE FLOOD OF RICH LANGUAGE: JOHN KEATS, LORD BYRON AND ANTHONY BURGESS': A LECTURE TO CELEBRATE JOHN KEATS'S BIRTHDAY AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, 31 OCTOBER, 18.30
31 Oct 2015 from 18:30 to 19:30
'The Flood of Rich Language: John Keats, Lord Byron and Anthony Burgess'
A lecture by Andrew Biswell
This lecture considers three writers who spent time, under very different circumstances, in Rome. For Keats, an admirer of Italian culture, it was the place where he endured his final illness, and where he began what he called his 'posthumous existence.' To Byron it was the thrilling 'city of the soul' described in Canto 4 of Childe Harold, a place of passion and noxious smells. Anthony Burgess, who lived in Rome in the 1970s, wrote three novels and a series of essays about his adventures in the city. In his novel Abba Abba, Burgess imagines a meeting in Rome between Keats and the poet Belli, and he speculates that Keats might have developed into an English equivalent of Belli. Reciting Keats's poems at the Keats-Shelley House on the Piazza di Spagna, Burgess underwent a strange experience that he describes in his autobiography. He also wrote a non-fiction book of literary history in which he considered the reputations of Keats and Byron. This preoccupation with Romantic-era poets finds its most characteristic expression in Byrne, Burgess's final novel-in-verse, posthumously published and written in imitation of Keats and Byron.
Andrew Biswell is Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.
Price: €10
Advance booking essential ([email protected]; 06 678 42 35)
Price:
€10.00 Location:
Salone
PROGRAMME FOR THE CONFERENCE - LORD BYRON IN THE HAND OF MARY SHELLEY (5 NOVEMBER 2015)
5 Nov 2015 from 14:00 to 19:00
BOOK YOUR PLACE FOR OUR 5 NOVEMBER 2015 ACADEMIC CONFERENCE
Lord Byron in the Hand of Mary Shelley
An Academic Conference organised by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the John Murray Archive of the National Library of Scotland, which takes place in the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.
5 November 2015 from 2pm to 7pm at the KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, Rome
The conference coincides with, and is inspired by, the temporary exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House, Lord Byron in the Hand of Mary Shelley (29 June – 6 November 2015), curated by Giuseppe Albano (Curator, Keats-Shelley House, Rome) and David McClay (Curator, John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland).
The exhibition features original and facsimile manuscripts loaned to the Keats-Shelley House by the National Library of Scotland, which are displayed amongst a host of treasures from the permanent collection of the Keats-Shelley House, with many of the items from both collections being publicly displayed for the first time.
The registration fee is €25, which includes refreshments and prosecco reception, and full details of the papers and speakers can be seen here.
In order to place your booking, please call 0039 06 678 42 35 or write to [email protected]
General visitors are informed that on 5 November 2015 the museum will be only open between 10am and 1pm. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Price:
€25.00
Location:
Salone
SARI GILBERT: MY HOME SWEET ROME - A TALK AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 AT 16.00
12 Nov 2015 from 16:00 to 17:00
Sari Gilbert: My Home Sweet Rome - A talk at the Keats-Shelley House, Thursday 12 November 2015 at 16.00
Rome-based American journalist Sari Gilbert will talk about her many years of living in the Eternal City, which have inspired her recent book My Home Sweet Rome (Perigord Press). Sari will give us an unveiled view of her beloved adopted country’s politics, its bureaucracy, its contradictory social customs, everyday concerns, and gastronomical habits.
Sari Gilbert first came to Rome in the 1960s on a junior year program and then returned several times to complete graduate work, including a doctorate thesis on Italian foreign policy. In the 1970s, settling full time in Italy, she started writing about Italy for US and Canadian newspapers and magazines, concluding that journalism was more to her liking than research or a university career. She became the correspondent for Newsweek and the Washington Post, covering Italian politics – we were then in the throes of the Cold War and Italy was home to the largest Communist Party in the West – the Vatican (in 1978 an unprecedented assassination attempt was made against Pope John Paul II), the Mafia and less stressful topics such as tourism and travel, food and fashion. In 1991, Gilbert was hired by an Italian newspaper and worked as an Italian journalist until the end of 2007. Since then she has worked as an editor and translator and has several Italy-related websites. She is the lead-writer and co-author of the National Geographic Rome Traveler and in 2014 she published “My Home Sweet Rome: Living and Loving in the Eternal City”. She is currently working on a tongue-in-cheek Italy travel guide and on a Rome-based mystery.
Entrance to the talk is included in the standard museum ticket.
Advance booking not essential - simply come and enjoy!
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
CHRISTINA HÖFFERER - VIAGGIO LETTERARIO A ROMA - KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE 17 DECEMBER AT 4 PM
17 Dec 2015 from 16:00 to 17:00
For more information on this event please see the page in Italian.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
PAUL HETHERINGTON POETRY READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, THURSDAY 7 JANUARY
7 Jan 2016 from 17:00 to 18:00
Join us for an afternoon of poetry reading by Professor Paul Hetherington on Thursday the 7th of January at 5 pm here at the Keats-Shelley House.
Price is included in the entrance ticket. Booking is not mandatory. For more information: 06 678 42 35/ [email protected]
Paul Hetherington is currently living in Rome having taken up an Australia Council for the Arts Residency in the BR Whiting Studio here. In Australia, he is Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra and Head of the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI). He has published nine full- length collections of poetry and four poetry chapbooks. His collection, Six Different Windows won the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards and he has three times been a finalist in the international Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition. He was also shortlisted for the 2013 Montreal International Poetry Prize and the 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize. He has has an abiding interest in the visual arts and is currently writing poems referencing works of art in Rome. He edited the final three volumes of the National Library of Australia’s four-volume edition of the diaries of the artist Donald Friend and is one of the founding editors of the international online journal Axon: Creative Explorations. In 2002 he was the recipient of a Chief Minister’s ACT Creative Arts Fellowship, and he was awarded one of two places on the 2012 Australian Poetry Tour of Ireland.
Comments on his work include:
“Hetherington is … a witty, cosmopolitan but never affected writer, with a meticulous ear and an intellect matched to his technical skills. Six Different Windows is one the finest collections of poetry this year.”—PETER PIERCE, The Age
“[T]he writing is at once simple and complex, beautiful and disturbing. These are poems to sink into, poems that are carefully crafted, born through experience and observation/intelligence, poems that deserve rereading and contemplation.”—ROBYN CADWALLADER, Verity La
“This is poetry of glowing sensuality, of urgent narrative pace, of tact in its exploration of intimate experience. Hetherington is an important poet with a growing national and international reputation, and this is some of his most accomplished work.”—SHIRLEY WALKER, Australian Book Review
“It is the sense of working for and with the whole poem … that marks Hetherington off from many other poets of his generation.”—VIVIAN SMITH, Southerly
“This accomplished volume is the kind of poetry which will provoke thought on all those shared human experiences that matter.”—ROD MORAN, The West Australian
“… his style is similarly lucid in voice, diction and image. This felicitous combination gives his poems the feel of poise, intelligence, grace and finish.”—PAUL KANE, Australian Book Review
“… Hetherington’s skill as a poet furnishes him with the tools to allow the reader a rich engagement …”—JOHN MATEER, The Canberra Times “Paul Hetherington’s poems conjure the power of words, not just in the way he uses them, but in the way he invokes the visceral nature of language, the sheer gutsiness of writing.”—TOM GRIFFITHS
“Hetherington’s writing is immaculate; he finds the hidden nuances at the core of each person … A beautiful piece of writing, to savour.”—GLENDA GUEST, Muse magazine
“Imaginative depth, crystallised moments, and finely conceived metaphors make this … an enchanting read.”—MERLE GOLDSMITH, Island Magazine
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location: Salone
POETRY CONSULTATIONS AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
6 Feb 2016 from 10:00 to 18:00
Have you been exploring the “airy citadels” of your imagination by writing poems, and you don’t quite know what to do with them? Would you like some expert guidance with imagery, rhyme, meter, and other aspects of poetry? Would you simply like a second opinion as to how your work is working, and how to revise to make it even better?
The Keats-Shelley House is pleased to offer monthly Poetry Consultations with Moira Egan, a widely published, award-winning American poet who has been teaching literature and creative writing for more than twenty years. She is extraordinarily proud of her students, who, over the years, have won many awards and have published their work, in noted journals as well as in chapbook and full-length collections.
Set aside some time for you and your poems. Appointments must be reserved in advance at [email protected]. Poetry consultations will be held from 10 am till 1 pm and from 2 pm till 4 pm on Saturday, 6 February and Saturday, 12 March.
On booking, please suggest three alternative time slots and we will do our best to allocate your preferred time.
€30 for a one-hour session of 1-3 poems (approximately 14-60 lines).
Moira Egan has been teaching literature and creative writing for more than twenty years. Her students have won numerous awards, and have published chapbooks, full-length poetry collections, and in many literary journals and anthologies. Moira’s sixth poetry collection, Strange Botany/ Botanica Arcana, was published by Pequod in 2014. Her previous collections are Hot Flash Sonnets (Passager Books, 2013), Spin (Entasis Press, 2010); Bar Napkin Sonnets (The Ledge, 2009); La Seta della Cravatta/ The Silk of the Tie (Edizioni l’Obliquo, 2009); and Cleave (WWPH, 2004).
Moira’s work has won many awards and has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad, including Best American Poetry 2008, The Book of Forms, and Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics. With her husband, Damiano Abeni, she has published more than a dozen volumes in translation in Italy, by authors such as Ashbery, Barth, Bender, Ferlinghetti, Hecht, Strand, and others. Their translations of Italian poems into English are published in many U.S. journals and in theFSG Book of 20th Century Italian Poetry and in Patrizia Cavalli’s My Poems Will Not Change the World (FSG). She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, and Columbia University.
Price:
€30.00
Location:
Film Room
MUSEUM CLOSED ON 4 SATURDAYS IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH
13 Feb 2016 from 10:00 to 18:00
We are sorry to inform our visitors that, due to some urgent maintenance works in the Salone, in the near future the Keats-Shelley House will be closed on four Saturdays, i.e. 13, 20 and 27 February and 05 March 2016. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.
This event needs to be repeated every Saturday until the 5th March 2016
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE IN GERMAN
18 Feb 2016 from 17:00 to 18:00
THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY at 17:00
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE in German
Keats-Shelley House guide Britta Janssen will give a complete introduction to the House which is most famous for being the final dwelling place of John Keats, who died here in 1821, and which has now served for over a century as a museum dedicated to the Romantic poets who lived in, and were inspired by, Italy.
Advance booking not necessary.
Entrance to the talk is included in the standard museum entrance ticket (€5 standard, €4 concessionary rate).
DONNERSTAG, 18. FEBRUAR um 17:00 UHR
EINE EINFÜHRUNG IN DAS KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE auf Deutsch
Britta Janssen, Museumsvermittlerin im Keats-Shelley House, gibt eine umfassende Einführung in deutscher Sprache in das Haus, welches vor allem als letzter Wohnsitz von John Keats bekannt ist und in dem er 1821 verstarb. Seit über einem Jahrhundert ist es nun schon als Museum den Romantikern gewidmet, die in Italien lebten und von Italien inspiriert wurden.
Kartenvorbestellung ist nicht erforderlich.
Einlass zum Vortrag ist in der normalen Museumseintrittskarte inbegriffen (€5 Normalpreis, €4 ermäßigter Preis).
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
JOHN KEATS'S FINAL DAYS - A TALK AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
23 Feb 2016 from 16:00 to 18:00
To commemorate the anniversary of the death of John Keats, one of the finest poets in the English language, who died in this House on the 23rd February 1821, the Keats-Shelley House will offer two talks - one in English, the other in Italian.
English talk at 16.00
Italian talk at 17.00
Advance booking is recommended but not essential ([email protected]; 06 678 42 35).
Entrance to the talk is included in the standard museum entrance ticket.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
DONATELLA BISUTTI POETRY READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
25 Feb 2016 from 16:00 to 17:00
DONATELLA BISUTTI POETRY READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
THURSDAY 25 FEBRUARY AT 16.00
ADVANCE BOOKING RECOMMENDED AS NUMBERS ARE LIMITED/ STANDARD ENTRANCE TO THE MUSEUM APPLIES
This event will be in Italian. For more information, please check the Italian page.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
SEBNEM SENYENER - WHITE HORSES: AN AEGEAN UNDERSTANDING OF KEATS'S 'ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER'
11 Mar 2016 from 18:00 to 19:00
SEBNEM SENYENER - White Horses: An Aegean Understanding of Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer'
A talk at the Keats-Shelley House on Friday 11 March at 6 pm
Turkish author Sebnem Senyener will talk about her experience of translating Keats's famous sonnet into Turkish, and offer her own Aegean perspectives on the poem's meanings.
Advance booking ESSENTIAL/ Standard entrance ticket to the museum applies.
Born in the Aegean port city of Izmir, Turkey, Sebnem Senyener is a novelist. She has published six novels, all of them love stories embedded within art thrillers. Her first novel, Letters Writ By A Turkish Spy (2001) owes its title and story to a 17th century Genovese, Giovanni Marana, the writer of the first spy novel, still unpublished in Italian. Her other novels are: February 30th (2004); We Loved Each Other With A Thousand Eyes (2014); and a trilogy, My Heart Stark Naked composed of The Murder of Belly Dancer (2006); The Merchant of Character (2008); The Song of Death is Free (2014).Senyener moved to New York soon after the 1980 military coup banned "The Democrat," the newspaper she was working for. She started living in Rome in 2010. Presently she also lives in London.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
POETRY CONSULTATIONS AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
12 Mar 2016 from 10:00 to 18:00
Have you been exploring the “airy citadels” of your imagination by writing poems, and you don’t quite know what to do with them? Would you like some expert guidance with imagery, rhyme, meter, and other aspects of poetry? Would you simply like a second opinion as to how your work is working, and how to revise to make it even better?
The Keats-Shelley House is pleased to offer monthly Poetry Consultations with Moira Egan, a widely published, award-winning American poet who has been teaching literature and creative writing for more than twenty years. She is extraordinarily proud of her students, who, over the years, have won many awards and have published their work, in noted journals as well as in chapbook and full-length collections.
Set aside some time for you and your poems. Appointments must be reserved in advance at [email protected]. Poetry consultations will be held from 10 am till 1 pm and from 2 pm till 4 pm on Saturday, 6 February and Saturday, 12 March.
On booking, please suggest three alternative time slots and we will do our best to allocate your preferred time.
€30 for a one-hour session of 1-3 poems (approximately 14-60 lines).
Moira Egan has been teaching literature and creative writing for more than twenty years. Her students have won numerous awards, and have published chapbooks, full-length poetry collections, and in many literary journals and anthologies. Moira’s sixth poetry collection, Strange Botany/ Botanica Arcana, was published by Pequod in 2014. Her previous collections are Hot Flash Sonnets (Passager Books, 2013), Spin (Entasis Press, 2010); Bar Napkin Sonnets (The Ledge, 2009); La Seta della Cravatta/ The Silk of the Tie (Edizioni l’Obliquo, 2009); and Cleave (WWPH, 2004).
Moira’s work has won many awards and has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad, including Best American Poetry 2008, The Book of Forms, and Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics. With her husband, Damiano Abeni, she has published more than a dozen volumes in translation in Italy, by authors such as Ashbery, Barth, Bender, Ferlinghetti, Hecht, Strand, and others. Their translations of Italian poems into English are published in many U.S. journals and in theFSG Book of 20th Century Italian Poetry and in Patrizia Cavalli’s My Poems Will Not Change the World (FSG). She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, and Columbia University.
Price:
€30.00
Location:
Film Room A STEREOSCOPIC TOUR OF ITALY AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
22 Mar 2016 from 17:00 to 17:30
On Tuesdays and Fridays from 22 March through till 29 April visitors to the Keats-Shelley House are invited to take a journey into Italy's past.
With the help of 100+ stereographs, made accessible for the first time, visitors can explore the way the country - its towns, cities, and famous monuments - looked at the end of the nineteenth century and start of the twentieth century, during the time of the foundation of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association.
The Keats-Shelley House's recently acquired extensive collection of stereographs of Rome and Italy, when gazed at through our antique stereoscopic reader, bring the 3D scenes to life. And spectators will be able to immerse themselves in scenes connected with the Romantic poets in Italy, including Venice, Naples, Florence and Pisa, as well as the Piazza di Spagna, the Pyramid of Caius Cestius, and the Baths of Caracalla in Rome.
The Stereoscopic Tour of Italy will be available to visitors only from 17.00 till 18.00 on the following days:
Tuesday 22 March from 17.00
Friday 25 March from 17.00
Tuesday 29 March from 17.00
Friday 1 April from 17.00
Tuesday 5 April from 17.00
Friday 8 April from 17.00
Tuesday 12 April from 17.00
Friday 15 April from 17.00
Tuesday 19 April from 17.00
Friday 22 April from 17.00
Tuesday 26 April from 17.00
Friday 29 April from 17.00
Advance booking is not necessary/ Standard entrance ticket to the museum applies.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location: Salone Please see the above event for when it needs to be added to the calendar throughout April.
TRANSLATING A LIFE: FORTY YEARS OF LIVING AND WRITING IN ITALY. A TALK BY WALLIS WILDE- MENOZZI AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
31 Mar 2016 from 16:00 to 17:00
TRANSLATING A LIFE: FORTY YEARS OF LIVING AND WRITING IN ITALY
A talk by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi at the Keats-Shelley House/ Thursday 31 March at 16.00
WWM first came to Italy in the 1960s for a taste of Mediterranean life to round out her education. She arrived by hitchhiking from Norway, with her writer-dreams in a backpack. Years later, and living in Oxford while needing a place to recover from an unhappy marriage, Italy, like a nurturing presence, seemed to call her back. How many countless people have reached out for the humanity of Italy, when they are searching for transformation, not of the will, but of the spirit?
WWM will invite discussion about ways that living in Italy has allowed her to approach identity beyond country or language. Positing the transformation that John Keats called “soul making,” she will suggest how the writing life rooted outside of one’s mother tongue is a path to new language, new freedom, forged from migrating into several points of view. Reading from various books she has written - Mother Tongue, An American Life in Italy, The Other Side of the Tiber, Reflections on Time in Italy, Toscanelli’s Ray, a novel - she will trace a journey that all people must make, and that writers are drawn to: the journey of becoming and how it translates a life.
WWM has lived in Parma for thirty-five years. In 2015, she taught at Columbia University in the Narrative Medicine Program and the graduate school of Creative Writing in 2014. She has taught for Boston College and Sarah Lawrence College, lectured widely, and run writing groups in Parma and Geneva. Her poetry and essays have appeared in many publications from Granta to Kenyon Review. Her books are published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, North Point Press, Cadmus Editions and Moretti e Vitali (L’Oceano è dentro di noi).
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
‘KEATS AS A READER OF SHAKESPEARE’, A SEMINAR AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, ROME THURSDAY 5 MAY 2016
5 May 2016 from 14:00 to 18:00
In order to mark the quarter centenary of the death of Shakespeare, and the bicentenary of Keats’s decision to abandon medicine and become a full-time poet, with his first published poem appearing in The Examiner in May 1816, the Keats-Shelley House is hosting an afternoon seminar devoted to the theme of Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare.
The registration fee is €25, which includes refreshments, and full details of the papers can be seen below.
Advance booking is essential and all enquiries and bookings should be sent to [email protected]/ 06 678 42 35.
KEATS AS A READER OF SHAKESPEARE
14.00 Registration (tea and coffee served)
14.15 Welcome and Introduction (Giuseppe Albano, Curator, Keats-Shelley House)
14.30 ‘Shakespeare the Presider’ (Maria Valentini, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Cassino, Italy)
15.00 ‘How in the Isle of Wight Keats met with Shakespeare’, Nadia Fusini (Professor of English and Comparative Literatures, Scuola Normale, Pisa, Italy)
15.45 A reading of Keats’s poems and letters inspired by the Bard, given by Rory Stuart and Michael Fitzpatrick
16.00 Break for refreshments
16.15 ‘"I look upon fine phrases like a lover”: Shakespearean Quotations in Keats’s Letters’ (Bob White, Winthrop Professor of English, University of Western Australia)
17.00 ‘"In the dark backward and abysm of time": Tracing Shakespeare in Keats’ (Davide Crosara, Adjunct Professor, La Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
For more information on the conference delegates, please click here.
Price:
€25
Location:
Salone
POETRY AND ART: AN INSPIRATION AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE 7 - 28 MAY
From 7 May 2016 to 28 May 2016 10:00-18:00
In February 2016 and over the course of three weeks, the Keats-Shelley House teamed up with St George’s British International School Nomentana for a series of hands-on workshops designed and delivered by ARTandSEEK.
The children of Years Five and Six worked to explore the fascinating world of the English Romantic Poets, to understand the relationship between literature and visual arts, and to experiment by composing poems based on inspirational artworks.
The dreamlike photographic collages together with the group works and the individual visual poems exhibited here bring a poetic sensibility to the creation of visual art: a testament of how the children have assimilated timeless visual and written sources with unique ingenuity, creativity and insight.
Entrance to the temporary exhibition is FREE.
Price:
FREE
Location:
Film Room
This event will continue to run until the 28th May.
ECSTASY AND DEATH: THE GENIUS OF KEATS AND SHELLEY. A READING BY JACK RAMEY
10 May 2016 from 18:30 to 19:30
Ecstasy and Death: The Genius of Keats and Shelley. A reading by Jack Ramey
Tuesday 10 May, 18:30 - SOLD OUT EVENT
* Please note that this event will be filmed and audience members may be also be filmed while the reading takes place *
Jack Ramey, poet and spoken word artist, offers his unique perspective on the lives and works of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley to accompany his dynamic reading of selections of their poetry. Rome was especially important to these two poets. Keats, of course, died here and is buried in the non-Catholic cemetery and Shelley wrote some of his greatest works here. His “Prometheus Unbound” was composed partly here, within the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla. In addition to the works of Keats and Shelley, Ramey performs a selection of his own poetry.
Links for Jack's videos of Keats & Shelley: http://www.springwoodpress.org/ode-to-a-nightingale/ (Note: From this URL, you can press the right sidebar arrow to scroll to the other 3 videos.) http://www.springwoodpress.org/ode-on-a-grecian-urn/ http://www.springwoodpress.org/3625-2/ http://www.springwoodpress.org/ozymandias/
Biographical Note:
Jack Rameyis a poet, author, performer, and English professor at Indiana University Southeast. His poetry books include The Future Past, Death Sings in the Choir of Light, and Eavesdropping in Plato’s Café , which was published April 2015. His historical fiction, Turtle Island, was published November 2015. His documentary,William Blake: Inspiration and Vision , won an Aegis award for best educational film.
In his early years, Jack was a member of the counterculture and read his poetry in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Eugene, Victoria BC, and Kent OH. He then moved to New York to work in the theater, where his roles ranged from contemporary plays to the role of Bunthorne – a parody of Oscar Wilde – in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. Isaac Asimov praised his performance as “the best Bunthorne I have ever seen.” He taught in Stockholm for several years. On his return to America, he performed in medieval plays with the Chicago Medieval Players and often read his poetry at the Green Mill, where he was a finalist in the Chicago Slam. He frequently posts poems at Springwood Press.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location: Salone FORTI PRELUDI: CRISTIAN LUCA ANDRULLI AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
26 May 2016 from 17:00 to 18:00
For more information on this event please check the Italian section of this page.
Price:
Entrance Ticket/ Biglietto d'ingresso
Location:
Salone
KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE POETRY PRIZE 2016
27 May 2016 from 17:00 to 18:00
In order to hold the ceremony for the Keats-Shelley House Poetry Prize 2016, today the museum will close at 5 pm. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to our visitors.
Price:
Free
Location:
Salone
KEATS AND MEDICINE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016, 17:00
2 Jun 2016 from 17:00 to 18:00
On Thursday 2 June at 5:00 pm Sean Hughes, Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Imperial College London and a lifelong lover of Keats's poetry, will give a talk dealing with the fascinating relationship between Keats and medicine.
The talk will be followed by refreshments.
Participation is included in the standard museum entrance ticket.
Advance booking recommended ([email protected]/ 06 678 42 35).
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
POETRY CONSULTATIONS AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
4 Jun2016 from 10:00 to 16:00
Have you been exploring the “airy citadels” of your imagination by writing poems, and you don’t quite know what to do with them? Would you like some expert guidance with imagery, rhyme, metre, and other aspects of poetry? Would you simply like a second opinion as to how your work is working, and how to revise to make it even better?
The Keats-Shelley House is pleased to offer monthly Poetry Consultations with Moira Egan, a widely published, award-winning American poet who has been teaching literature and creative writing for more than twenty years. She is extraordinarily proud of her students, who, over the years, have won many awards and have published their work, in noted journals as well as in chapbook and full-length collections.
Set aside some time for you and your poems. Appointments must be reserved in advance at [email protected]. Poetry consultations will be held from 10 am till 1 pm and from 2 pm till 4 pm on Saturday 04 June.
On booking, please suggest three alternative time slots and we will do our best to allocate your preferred time.
€30 for a one-hour session of 1-3 poems (approximately 14-60 lines).
Moira Egan has been teaching literature and creative writing for more than twenty years. Her students have won numerous awards, and have published chapbooks, full-length poetry collections, and in many literary journals and anthologies. Moira’s sixth poetry collection, Strange Botany/ Botanica Arcana, was published by Pequod in 2014. Her previous collections are Hot Flash Sonnets (Passager Books, 2013), Spin (Entasis Press, 2010); Bar Napkin Sonnets (The Ledge, 2009); La Seta della Cravatta/ The Silk of the Tie (Edizioni l’Obliquo, 2009); and Cleave (WWPH, 2004).
Moira’s work has won many awards and has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad, including Best American Poetry 2008, The Book of Forms, and Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics. With her husband, Damiano Abeni, she has published more than a dozen volumes in translation in Italy, by authors such as Ashbery, Barth, Bender, Ferlinghetti, Hecht, Strand, and others. Their translations of Italian poems into English are published in many U.S. journals and in theFSG Book of 20th Century Italian Poetry and in Patrizia Cavalli’s My Poems Will Not Change the World (FSG). She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, and Columbia University.
Price:
€30.00
Location:
Film Room SUSAN BRADLEY SMITH POETRY READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, TUESDAY 7 JUNE, 17:00
7 Jun 2016 from 17:00 to 18:00
Susan Bradley Smith is the current Australia Council BR Whiting Studio poet in residence in Rome.
She will read a selection of her work, including a series of new poems reflecting on her time in Rome, exploring the contemporary city and talking with the city's residents, including its street vendors.
Susan has an Honours degree in History, a PhD in English, and is a NIDA playwright’s studio graduate. An award-winning creative writer and essayist, she specialises in feminist cultural history, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Since beginning her professional writing life as an Arts journalist in Sydney and London she has worked as an academic in both Australia and the UK, publishing extensively as a literary critic, theatre historian, and creative writer. A regular media commentator and former host of Literary Links at the London Australian High Commission, she has extensive board and committee experience. Her most recent books are the poetry collection Beds For All Who Come, and the memoir Friday Forever. In 2013 Susan founded the writing and wellbeing consultancy Milkwood Bibliotherapy, building on her award-winning work in the Medical Humanities. Currently co-authoring a history of psychiatry and poetry, Read Me Madly, Susan is also completing a biography of the bohemian actress and poet, Winston Churchill’s daughter Sarah, Lady Audley. She lives in Perth, Australia, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Curtin University.
Entrance to the reading is included in the standard museum entrance ticket.
Booking is not mandatory. For more information: 06 678 42 35/ [email protected]
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
‘ON THIS DAY IN 1816’: THE BICENTENARY OF THE COMPOSITION OF MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN SATURDAY, 23RD JULY 2016
23 Jul 2016 from 18:30 to 20:00
‘On This Day in 1816’: The Bicentenary of the Composition of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN SATURDAY, 23RD JULY 2016
A Public Reading of Romantic Poetry and Prose at the Keats-Shelley House, Rome.
Join us for an evening of readings from the works of Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, celebrating exactly 200 years since Mary Shelley began to write one of the most famous novels in the English language: Frankenstein. Includes short academic talks by David Higgins (University of Leeds) and Anna Mercer (University of York).
This event at the Keats-Shelley House in 2016 celebrates the bicentenary of the composition of the Romantic period’s most famous novel, and this fruitful period of creativity for both Shelleys in 1816. The event will take place almost exactly 200 years later to the day that Mary Shelley began writing. The evening will include a reading of the preface and the introduction to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the most famous scene in the novel when the creature awakens (‘It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils’), and excerpts from Percy Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’. Two scholars (Anna Mercer and David Higgins) will give short talks on the Shelleys’ collaborative literary relationship, and 1816 as ‘the Year Without a Summer’.
The event is a public ticketed event and refreshments will be provided.
To buy tickets (at €10 each) please email
We hope to produce an invigorating atmosphere that will allow attendees to consider the history of Frankenstein during this exciting bicentenary month. The event has been supported by the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (BSECS), the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, and the Keats-Shelley House.
Price:
€10.00
Location:
Salone
"LA TEMPESTA È OLTRE": A MONOLOGUE BY REBECCA PALAGI, AT 5 PM
25 Jul 2016 from 17:00 to 18:00
This event will be in Italian. Please check the Italian page for more information.
Price:
Entrance Ticket/ Biglietto d'ingresso
Location:
Salone
THE PAINTERS WHO STUDIED CLOUDS: A READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE: FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER AT 6:30 PM
30 Sep 2016 from 18:30 to 20:00
Will Kemp, winner of this year's Keats-Shelley Prize for his poem 'Driving to work at 5am while listening to Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor', will give a special reading of his poems at the Keats-Shelley House on Friday 30 September at 6:30 pm in order to mark the publication of his third collection, The Painters Who Studied Clouds.
Advance booking is mandatory ([email protected]/ 06 678 42 35)
Will Kemp has won the 2016 Keats-Shelley Prize, the Debut Collection Award and the Envoi International. He has had over 300 poems published in national journals and newspapers.
Cinnamon Press published his first pamphlet, The Missing Girl, as well as his full collections to date, Nocturnes and Lowland, and now his third, The Painters Who Studied Clouds.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Will considers that his greatest achievement was finding his first collection on a bookshelf in Waterstones - next to Keats!
Price:
€5.00
Location:
Salone
REMEMBERING WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: MARK ANTONY'S SPEECH FROM 'JULIUS CAESAR'
7 Oct from 17:00 to 18:00
For more information about this reading, please check the Italian page.
Price:
Biglietto d'ingresso
Location:
Salone
I COLORI E LE PAROLE: INCONTRO CON FABRIZIO DALL'AGLIO
20 Oct 2016 from 17:00 to 18:00
This event will be in italian. Please check the Italian page to have more information.
Price:
Entrance Ticket/ Biglietto d'ingresso
Location:
Salone
THE SCIENCE OF MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN: A TALK BY SHARON RUSTON AT THE KEATS- SHELLEY HOUSE
18 Nov 2016 from 18:30 to 20:00
The Science of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A talk by Sharon Ruston at the Keats-Shelley House
Friday 18 November 18.30 - 20.00
Talk will be followed by refreshments
Advance Booking essential ([email protected]; 06 678 42 35)
Sharon Ruston is Chair in Romanticism at Lancaster University. She has published Shelley and Vitality (2005), Romanticism: An Introduction (2010), and Creating Romanticism: Case Studies of the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s (2013) and is currently co-editing The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy for OUP.
Price:
€10.00
Location:
Salone
This event continues to run until the 3rd June 2017.
REMEMBERING EDITH SCHLOSS AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
From 5 Dec 2016 to 7 Dec 2016 10:00-18:00
Edith Schloss alla Keats-Shelley House nel 2006
Ricevimento: lunedì 5 dicembre 2016 ore 17.00
5 dicembre – 7 dicembre 2016, ore 10.00-13.00; 14.00-18.00
A questo evento in ricordo della collaborazione di Edith Schloss con la Keats-Shelley House farà seguito la mostra:
Con Edith: Allegro Feroce un progetto di Susana Talayero e Silvia Stucky
Jacopo Benci | Jacob Burckhardt | Primarosa Cesarini Sforza | Elvio Chiricozzi | Alvin Curran |
Peter Rockwell | Suzanne Santoro | Georgina Spengler | Silvia Stucky | Susana Talayero |
Sabato 17 dicembre 2016 ore 17.30
Domenica 18 dicembre ore 14.00-20.00
Via del Corallo 29, 00186 Roma
Info: 329 3544936
Edith Schloss.
Artista, scrittrice, giornalista e critico d’arte, amica e compagna di strada di artisti, poeti, compositori in Italia e negli Stati Uniti, Edith ha lasciato una traccia in tutte le persone che l’hanno frequentata e che hanno fatto parte della sua vita a Roma.
La Keats-Shelley House, dove Edith tenne nel 2006 la mostra In the Bay of Lerici and Versilia. Still- life and myth-life, la ricorda con un evento che presenterà due suoi acquerelli ispirati all’Ode on a Grecian Urn di Keats, e una videointervista a Edith realizzata da Susan Levenstein durante la mostra.
La mostra Con Edith: Allegro Feroce , ideata da Susana Talayero e Silvia Stucky, nasce dal desiderio di celebrare il suo spirito indipendente e libero, attraverso dipinti, disegni, sculture, fotografie, assemblages, di Jacopo Benci, Jacob Burckhardt, Primarosa Cesarini Sforza, Elvio Chiricozzi, Alvin Curran, Peter Rockwell, Suzanne Santoro, Georgina Spengler, Silvia Stucky, Susana Talayero.
La mostra, che avrà luogo in quella che è stata per 25 anni la casa-studio di Edith vicino a piazza Navona, sarà accompagnata da un catalogo online. http://www.edithschloss.com/ http://granarybooks.com/collections/schloss/index.html Price:
Entrance to the Film Room is free
Location:
Film Room
This event runs until the 7th Decemeber 2016.
'SHELLEY'S "POETICAL ESSAY ON THE EXISTING STATE OF THINGS": A NEWLY RECOVERED POEM AND ITS CONTEXTS': A TALK BY MICHAEL ROSSINGTON AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
15 Dec 2016 from 18:30 to 20:00
‘Shelley's Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things: A newly recovered poem and its contexts'
Thursday 15 December 2016 at 6.30 p.m.
Michael Rossington, a renowned scholar of romantic poetry, will talk about the thrilling recent rediscovery of P. B. Shelley's Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things.
Tickets €8. Advance Booking essential ([email protected]; 06 678 42 35).
Mulled wine and mince pies will be served following the talk.
Michael Rossington is Professor of Romantic Literature at Newcastle University. He has research interests in: the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially poetry, life- writing, republican thought, manuscript studies, translation, and bibliography; the writings of Percy B. Shelley, Mary Shelley and those authors closely associated with them; and textual editing. He is co-ordinating editor of the Longman Annotated English Poets edition of The Poems of Shelley vols 4 (2013) and 5 (2018), and contributed to vols 2 (2000) and 3 (2011). He also co- edited The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe (2008). He is a member of the advisory boards of The Oxford University Press Edition of the Works of Robert Burns, The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, and The Shelley-Godwin Archive. He is a member of the British Association for Romantic Studies, and a Friend of the Bodleian Library, the Keats Shelley Memorial Association, Newcastle University Library and the Wordsworth Trust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOA3mkUmaDc
Price:
€8.00
Location:
Salone
VILLA DIODATI & BEYOND
26 Jan 2017 from 18:00 to 19:30
VILLA DIODATI & BEYOND
A Photographic Exhibition BM Studio
Opening Cocktail 26.01.2017 ore 18:00
Reading teatrale: Caterina Murino legge Mary Shelley
INGRESSO GRATUITO
PRENOTAZIONE OBBLIGATORIA
([email protected]/ 06 678 42 35)
Price:
Free
Location:
Salone/ Film Room
AN HOUR OF POETRY, LAUGHTER, TEARS, LOVE, AND CHOCOLATE AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
14 Feb 2017 from 17:00 to 18:00
An Hour of Poetry, Laughter, Tears, Love, and Chocolate at the Keats-Shelley House
Join Constance Daggett and the staff of the Keats-Shelley House for a reading of love poems from the Essential Poems of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley anthology this Valentine's Day 2017.
Perugina chocolates and visit to the museum are included in the entrance ticket.
No booking necessary. Just come along and enjoy.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
THE ROMANTICS AND GREECE: MYTH, TRANSCENDENCE, LOVE AND BEAUTY
21 Feb 2017 from 17:00 to 18:00
Ginger Zaimis, 'The Romantics and Greece: Myth, Transcendence, Love and Beauty'
Tuesday, 21 February 2017. 5 p.m
Ginger F. Zaimis is the Literary and Arts Chair (Greece) for the International Friends of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, The Library of Alexandria. She is an American poet, polymath, essayist and thinker who specializes in architectural forms.
A Southerner and New Victorian with themes of Romanticism and Hellenism close to her heart, the lecture and reading,The Romantics and Greece: Myth, Transcendence, Love and Beauty is a pairing of poems, old to new from Keats, Shelley and Byron from Ode to Sonnet and Portico to Triptych, the architect of the latter two poetic forms. Ginger's poetry re-weaves, re-narrates and progresses mythology to philosophy and the classics through “new eyes”.
Her grammatology unites the intersections of contemporary modernisms, comparative literature and mythology to connect interdisciplinary dialogues with architecture, language, history and philosophy while uniting the arts and sciences. Her work has been presented at centers for contemporary art, biennials and museums while her writing endorsed and published by The Athens Academy as well as her poetic perspectives by The National Book Critics Circle. She is the author of three collections of poetry which include Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology, Excavated Athens to Alexandria, forthcoming Therapy with Antigone and the Trilogy Verses (Spuyten Duyvil Press, New York City) 2017 and co-author of Philosophy and Poetry. She is multilingual and translates from the Ancient and Modern Greek to English verse. She lives in Athens, Greece. Follow her on YouTube and/or Twitter @gfzaimis
Advance booking recommended/ Participation in the event is included in the standard museum entrance ticket.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
TERESA CAMPI "D'AMORE E MORTE. BYRON, SHELLEY E KEATS A ROMA"
23 Feb 2017 from 17:00 to 18:00
Please check the Italian section of this page for more information about this event.
Price:
€5.00
Location:
Salone
RON SMITH AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
9 Mar 2017 from 17:00 to 18:00
On Thursday 9 March at 5 p.m. American poet Ron Smith will read a selection of his published and new poems, including works inspired by John Keats.
Ron Smith is the Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is the author of the books Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery, Its Ghostly Workshop, Moon Road: Poems 1986- 2005, and the forthcoming volume The Humility of the Brutes.
Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery was judged by Margaret Atwood 'a close runner-up' for the National Poetry Series Open Competition and was subsequently published by University Presses of Florida. Ron Smith’s work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Nation, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Kansas Quarterly, Blackbird, Puerto del Sol, and Plume. His poems have also appeared in a number of anthologies published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Italy.
In 2005 Smith was an inaugural winner of the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize; in 2006 he became one of the Curators for that prize. He's the recipient of Southern Poetry Review’s Guy Owen Prize (judge, Linda Pastan), Poetry Northwest’s Theodore Roethke Prize, and many other awards. He is Writer-in-Residence at St. Christopher’s School, where he holds the George Squires Chair of Distinguished Teaching.
Smith holds degrees in Philosophy, English, General Humanities, and Creative Writing from University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University (B.A., M.A., M.H. M.F.A.) and has studied British drama at Oxford University, writing at Bennington College, and Renaissance and Modernist culture at the Ezra Pound Center for Literature in Merano, Italy.
Ron Smith grew up Savannah, Georgia. He attended college on a football scholarship, playing for the Tangerine Bowl Championship University of Richmond Spiders, the first-ever “Team of Distinction” to be inducted into the Spider Sports Hall of Fame. Since 2009, he has been Poetry Editor for Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature.
Advance booking is recommended but not essential.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
'SQUASHED FLIES AND PEAR PIPS: SOME STRANGE THINGS FOUND IN SHELLEY'S NOTEBOOKS': NORA CROOK AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
24 Mar 2017 from 18:30 to 20:00
"Squashed Flies and Pear Pips: Some Strange Things Found in Shelley's Notebooks"
Nora Crook, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Anglia Ruskin University and one of the greatest living experts on the Shelleys, will give a talk at the Keats-Shelley House on Friday, the 24th of March 2017 from 6:30 p.m.
Advance booking necessary (06 678 42 35/ [email protected])
A glass of prosecco will be served afterwards.
Nora Crook’s chief publications include the co-authored Shelley's Venomed Melody (Cambridge University Press 1986), a monograph on Shelley and medicine, which was followed by Kipling's Myths of Love and Death (Macmillan, 1990) and numerous journal articles and chapters. Her international reputation was established by her textual work on the Shelleys between 1991-2002. Editions of two of P.B. Shelley's notebooks in the Bodleian Library alternated with her general editorship of twelve volumes of Mary Shelley's works, which included her own editions of Frankenstein and Valperga. Currently she is co-general editor of the multi-volume Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Johns Hopkins, 2000 onward), with special responsibility for poems edited by Mary Shelley after P. B. Shelley's death.
She has lectured as an invited speaker in the UK, US, France and Italy; also, she gave a guest lecture to the English Literary Society in Japan in November 2016, having previously taught in Japan in 2005-06; She is on the editorial board of several international journals. and also an occasional reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement. Samples of her work and reviews are available on the internet.
Price:
€12.00
Location:
Salone
THE LAND OF HONOURABLE DEATH: DISPLACEMENT AND IDENTITY IN THE POETRY OF BYRON AND KAVAFY
21 Apr 2017 from 18:30 to 20:00
The Land of honourable Death: Displacement and Identity in the poetry of Byron and Kavafy
Friday 21 April at 18:30
Advance booking essential
The talk will be followed by refreshments
Isadora Papadrakakis was born in Greece and raised between London and Athens. She studied Classics at Cambridge, History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and Theatre Design at the Slade School of Fine Art. She has worked as Director Arts for the British Council in Greece and India and as Arts Advisor for the Abu Dhabi government. Through her work for ArtandSeek, an association she co-founded to provide arts education for children and families, she is a frequent collaborator of the Keats-Shelley House. She is now based in Rome.
Price:
€10.00
Location:
Salone
TRADURRE SHELLEY: L’ESSENZA DELLA VIOLETTA
27 Apr 2017 from 17:00 to 18:00
For more information about this event, please check the Italian section of this page.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
'MEDITERRANEAN MIGRATION: FROM ITHACA TO POZZALLO', A TALK BY MARY VENTURINI
19 May 2017 from 18:30 to 20:00
‘Mediterranean Migration: From Ithaca to Pozzallo’, a talk by Mary Venturini
Friday 19 May, 18:30 at the Keats-Shelley House
Following her recent experiences as a volunteer in a refugees centre in the province of Ragusa (Sicily), Wanted in Rome Editor Mary Venturini, a long-standing member of the Rome Committee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, will reflect on and share her experience with us. A discussion will follow the talk. The entrance is free of charge but booking is mandatory due to the limited amount of seats available.
06 678 42 35/ [email protected]
Price:
Free
Location:
Film Room
HUMANS AND PLACES
From 26 May2017 to 1 Jun 2017 10:00-18:00
An exhibition of artworks by students of St George's British International School Nomentana.
The exhibition will be on display from 26th May to 1st June 2017 during museum hours. Free entrance.
Price:
Free
Location:
Film Room The above event will carry on until 1st June.
"DEAR JOHN MURRAY ...": CELEBRATING 250 YEARS OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST PUBLISHING HOUSES
26 May 2017 from 18:30 to 20:00
Dear John Murray ...
Join David McClay on the eve of the 250th anniversary of one of the world's greatest publishing houses, as he examines their remarkable collection of letters from the likes of Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and Charles Darwin. Insightful and enduringly interesting, these letters offer a unique insight into important publishing stories, but also the lives and personalities of great authors.
FRIDAY 26 MAY 2017 at the KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
18.30 in the Salone, followed by refreshments
Advance booking required ([email protected]/ 06 678 42 35)
Price:
€10.00
Location:
Salone
SOLD OUT - JULIAN SANDS IN "A CELEBRATION OF HAROLD PINTER" AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
15 Jun 2017 from 19:00 to 20:30
WE INFORM OUR VISITORS THAT THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
JULIAN SANDS in A CELEBRATION OF HAROLD PINTER at the KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
Thursday 15 June and Friday 16 June at 7 p.m./ (Performance time 45-50 minutes, followed by refreshments)
Tickets SOLD OUT for this event
In 2005, Julian Sands was approached by the Nobel Prize winning playwright and poet Harold Pinter to prepare a selection of his poems for a special presentation in London. Pinter 'apprenticed' Mr. Sands, spending hours sharing his feelings on how his work should be delivered. Every pause, every nuance in tone had and has meaning.
A bond was established between the author Harold Pinter and the actor Julian Sands – one that gives a distinctive and very personal voice to Pinter’s words. This extraordinary collaboration became the foundation for a wonderfully rich, humorous and fascinating solo show directed by John Malkovich.
A Celebration of Harold Pinter is an evening of Homeric theater with an extraordinary actor, great words and an audience. Devoid of pretension or glittery trappings, A Celebration of Harold Pinter gets to the soul of the man-poet, playwright, husband, political activist, Nobel winner, mortal. Performances at the Edinburgh Festival in 2011 and in New York at The Irish Repertory Theatre were followed by engagements at Steppenwolf in Chicago, Herbst Theatre in San Francisco as well as in Los Angeles, Mexico City, Budapest, London, and Paris. A Celebration of Harold Pinter was nominated for a 2013 Drama Desk Award.
British actor Julian Sands is frequently seen worldwide in films, on stage and on television. He trained in London at The Central School of Speech and Drama and has appeared in over 100 films including The Killing Fields, A Room with a View, Impromptu, Leaving Las Vegas, Arachnophobia, Oceans13 and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. On television, he is best known for his role on 24 but has also been seen on Dexter, Smallville, Ghost Whisperer and Banshee.
Price:
€15.00
Location:
Salone
This event happened also on the 16th and 17th June.
THE ASCENT OF MARY SOMERVILLE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY SOCIETY
6 Jul 2017 from 17:00 to 18:00
The Ascent of Mary Somerville in 19th Century Society
Elisabetta Strickland - Department of Mathematics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (GIO, Gender Interuniversity Observatory, Italy)
Thursday 6 JULY - 5 p.m. - Booking recommended ([email protected]/ 06 678 42 35)
It is an astonishing experience to go back in time and explore the world where study and research for women were forbidden by law. The fascinating life of the Scottish scientist and popular writer Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872) takes us back to this past and, at the same time, describes the fight of one great dame for equal rights and opportunities for women. Her fight was not political, inasmuch she did not try to influence public opinion with her words or actions, but by conquering respect from the scientific world. Her extraordinary mathematical talent only came to light through fortuitous circumstances. Barely educated as a child, all the science she learned and mastered was self taught. By giving this example of scientific competence, she backed the struggle towards education opportunities for women that lead to their access to schools. The Somerville College in Oxford was named in her honor in 1879 and produced famous graduates such as Vera Brittain, Dorothy Hodgkin, Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher. Elisabetta STRICKLAND is Full Professor of Algebra at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. She was Vice-President of the National Institute of Advanced Mathematics (INdAM) from 2007 to 2015. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Women in Mathematics Committee (WIM) of the European Mathematical Society. She is also a co-founder of the Gender Interuniversity Observatory GIO over the state Universities in Rome. Since 2016 she has been Ambassador to Italy in the Committee of Women in Mathematics (CWM) of the International Mathematical Union. In 2013 she was awarded as one of the 'Excellent Women in Rome' by the Capitoline Administration.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
A. FRANCES JOHNSON READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
28 Jul 2017 from 17:00 to 18:00
A. FRANCES JOHNSON will read at the Keats-Shelley House on Friday 28 July at 17:00.
A drink will be served to the attendees between 16:30 and 17.
Booking recommended ( [email protected]/ 06 678 42 35).
Entrance to the reading is included in the standard museum entrance ticket (5/4€).
A. Frances Johnson is an award-winning Australian poet and recipient of the 2017 Australia Council B. R Whiting writing residency in Rome. In 2015 she won the prestigious Josephine Ulrick-Griffith University Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Motherlode: Australian Women’s Poetry 1986– 2008 and Best Australian Poems 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016 respectively. She has published three books of poetry, The Pallbearer’s Garden (Whitmore Press 2008), The Wind-up Birdman of Moorabool Street (Puncher and Wattmann 2012) and Rendition for Harp and Kalashnikov (forthcoming Puncher and Wattmann 2017). Her novel Eugene’s Falls (Arcadia 2007) retraces the wilderness journeys of famed colonial landscape painter Eugene von Guerard who emigrated to Australia to mine gold after trying his hand as a painter of Italian vedute in Rome and Naples. Neither gold mining nor golden Italian views suited him, but he made the strange landscapes of the new world his own.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
SOLD OUT - JULIAN SANDS'S POETRY READING
2 Sep 2017 from 17:00 to 18:00
WE INFORM OUR VISITORS THAT THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
Julian Sands, Readings from the Essential Poems of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley
SATURDAY 02 September 5 p.m.
Join acclaimed and much-loved English actor Julian Sands as he reads some of his personal favourites from Keats and Shelley in a reading to celebrate a new anthology published by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association titled John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Essential Poems, edited by Duncan Wu and with a preface by Julian Sands.
After the reading, there will be the chance to meet and greet the actor, and have books signed by him.
Julian Sands is an English actor who has worked all over the world in Film, TV, Theatre, and Radio. Best known for appearances in films such as: A Room With A View, The Killing Fields, Impromptu, Boxing Helena, Warlock, Leaving Las Vegas, Vatel, Oceans 13, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and others; and on TV: 24, Smallville, and Gotham.
He first visited the Keats-Shelley House in the late 1970s and played Shelley in Ken Russell’s film Gothic. He has toured Europe and America with a theatre production based on the poetry of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.
He lists mountaineering as one of his passions and always takes an anthology of poems on his expeditions.
Price:
€5
Location:
Salone
This event happened again on the 9th September.
A LINE FOR A LINE --- DRAWINGS BY ROBERTO EINAUDI INSPIRED BY JOHN KEATS
From 29 Sep 2017 to 23 Dec 2017 10:00-18:00
A LINE FOR A LINE --- Drawings by Roberto Einaudi inspired by John Keats
An exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House from 29 September till 23 December marking 200 hundred years since the publication of John Keats's Poems, his first published volume.
Admission is included in the standard museum entrance ticket
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Museum
This event finished on the 23rd December. OTTO - A PLAY WRITTEN BY ROBERTA CALANDRA
1 Oct 2017 from 17:30 to 18:30
For more information about this event, please check the Italian section of the page.
Price:
€25.00/ 20.00
Location:
Salone
SOLD OUT JULIAN SANDS'S POETRY READING
11 Oct 2017 from 17:00 to 18:00
WE INFORM OUR VISITORS THAT THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
Julian Sands, Readings from the Essential Poems of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley
WEDNESDAY 11 October 5 p.m./ Booking mandatory
Join acclaimed and much-loved English actor Julian Sands as he reads some of his personal favourites from Keats and Shelley in a reading to celebrate a new anthology published by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association titled John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Essential Poems, edited by Duncan Wu and with a preface by Julian Sands.
After the reading, a reception will follow, during which there will be the chance to meet and greet the actor, and have books signed by him.
Julian Sands is an English actor who has worked all over the world in Film, TV, Theatre, and Radio. Best known for appearances in films such as: A Room With A View, The Killing Fields, Impromptu, Boxing Helena, Warlock, Leaving Las Vegas, Vatel, Oceans 13, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and others; and on TV: 24, Smallville, and Gotham.
He first visited the Keats-Shelley House in the late 1970s and played Shelley in Ken Russell’s film Gothic. He has toured Europe and America with a theatre production based on the poetry of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.
He lists mountaineering as one of his passions and always takes an anthology of poems on his expeditions.
Price:
€10
Location:
Salone
KEATS'S ITALIAN AFTERLIVES - THE JOHN KEATS BIRTHDAY LECTURE AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
31 Oct 2017 from 17:00 to 18:00
On 31 Tuesday October at 5 pm Marco Canani, a Milan-based scholar of Romantic Literature, will give the John Keats Birthday Lecture at the Keats-Shelley House titled 'Keats's Italian Afterlives'.
Admission included in standard entrance ticket.
Advanced booking recommended but not essential.
Marco Canani is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano, where he is working on a research project devoted to Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats in Italy. He obtained his Ph.D. with a dissertation on Vernon Lee and the Italian Renaissance, and conducted archival research at the University of Oxford (UK) and Colby College (USA). He is the author of Ellenismi britannici. L’ellenismo nella poesia, nelle arti e nella cultura britannica, dagli augustei al Romanticismo (2014), co-author of Introduzione allo studio della letteratura inglese (2017), and has published articles on John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, A.J. Cronin. His research interests include Romantic poetry, Anglo-Italian studies, and gender studies.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
PELE COX AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
7 Nov 2017 from 14:00 to 16:00
John Murray / Keats-Shelley Memorial Association Poet in Residence Pele Cox will be holding a creative writing workshop every week on Tuesdays 2-4pm at Keats-Shelley House.
Please bring a poem that you would like to talk about and if you are a budding writer a piece of your own writing to accompany it – you can attend as many or as few of these workshops as you like.
Advance booking necessary
Price:
Participation is included in the standard museum entrance ticket
Location:
Balcony
This event happens also on the 8th, 14th,15th ,21st,22nd,29th and 3th November.
JO SHAPCOTT AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
17 Nov 2017 from 17:00 to 18:00
Join us for an afternoon of poetry reading with award-winning poet
Jo Shapcott
Booking not mandatory but recommended/ Info: 06 678 42 35/ [email protected]
Jo Shapcott was born in London and is a long-standing poetry judge for the Keats-Shelley Prize. Poems from her three award-winning collections, Electroplating the Baby (1988), Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep (1998) are gathered in a collection of poems, Her Book (2000). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition (twice). Tender Taxes, her versions of Rilke, was published in 2001. Her most recent collection, Of Mutability, was published in 2010 and won the Costa Book Award. In 2011 Jo Shapcott was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone A LINE FOR A LINE - A SPECIAL CELEBRATORY EVENING
1 Dec 2017 from 18:00 to 20:00
A LINE FOR A LINE --- Drawings by Roberto Einaudi inspired by John Keats
Friday 1 December at 6 p.m.
A special bilingual evening celebrating Roberto Einaudi's exhibition with discussions led by the artist and by curator Giuseppe Albano, with readings and reflections in Italian by noted Keats scholar Nadia Fusini, and in English by British poet Pele Cox.
Entrance is free.
Price:
Free
Location:
Salone
P. B. SHELLEY'S THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: TEXTS, SUBTEXTS, CONTEXTS: A KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE/AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME CONFERENCE
15 Dec 2017 from 14:00 to 18:00
P. B. Shelley's The Revolt of Islam: Texts, Subtexts, Contexts
15 December 2017, 2-8 p.m.
For the programme click here
As part of the ongoing programme of bicentenaries celebrated by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association as well as the series of events at the American Academy in Rome exploring East and West, and in particular the misunderstandings and exchanges between the West and the Islamic World, this conference organized by the Keats-Shelley House in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome revisits Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem The Revolt of Islam, first published in 1817 as Laon and Cythna.
On the afternoon of 15 December, 1817, publisher Charles Ollier met with Thomas Love Peacock, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont and Shelley himself to discuss the potentially controversial and contentious nature of Shelley’s poem. Marking the bicentenary of that meeting, papers in English and in Italian will focus on historical and contextual issues, as well as the contemporary resonances of Shelley’s poem.
The keynote address will be given by celebrated author Don DeLillo, whose novel Falling Man (2007) explores the aftermath of 9/11 through the experience of a survivor of the attacks on New York. A postcard sent from Rome, a reproduction of the cover of Shelley’s poem, purchased at the Keats-Shelley House in Piazza di Spagna, makes an important cameo appearance in the novel.
The conference is organized by Giuseppe Albano, Curator and Director of the Keats-Shelley House, and Maria Valentini, Professore Associato in English Literature at the Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale.
The event will be held in English and in Italian. You can watch it livestreamed at https://livestream.com/aarome
Please note: valid photo ID is required for entry into the American Academy in Rome. Backpacks and luggage with dimensions larger than cm 40 x 35 x 15 (inches 16 x 14 x 6) are not permitted on the property. There are no locker facilities available.
Price:
Free
Location:
American Academy in Rome
KRISTEL THORNELL AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
11 Jan 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
Join us on Thursday 11 January at 5 p.m. as Australian novelist Kristel Thornell reads and discusses her work.
Kristel Thornell is the recipient of the 2017-18 Australia Council for the Arts International Residency in Rome. Her first novel, Night Street , co-won the Australian/ Vogel Literary Award and won the Dobbie Literary Award, the Barbara Ramsden Award and the Andrew Eiseman Writers Award. She was named one of the Best Young Australian Novelists by The Sydney Morning Herald in 2011. Her second novel, On the Blue Train , was recently published by Allen & Unwin. She holds a Ph.D. from the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney, and has also published short fiction, essays and reviews. In Rome, she has been writing Savage Nostalgia, a new novel set in Australia, Italy and the United States.
www.kristelthornell.com
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
ILLUMINATING POETRY: PRE-RAPHAELITE AND BEYOND
From 29 Jan2018 to 28 Apr 2018 10:00-18:00
ILLUMINATING POETRY – PRE-RAPHAELITE & BEYOND
A temporary exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House from Monday 29 January till Saturday 28 April 2018
This exhibition, curated by Giuseppe Albano and Dinah Roe, brings together a number of books and manuscripts which demonstrate some of the ways in which medieval illumination influenced the art of the book once again from the late nineteenth and into the early twentieth century.
Some of the items displayed come from the Keats-Shelley House’s own holdings, while others are on loan from the National Library of Scotland, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the American Academy in Rome, and from private collections.
Entrance to the exhibition is included in the standard museum entrance ticket (€5 or €4 at the concessionary rate).
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Terrace Room
This event runs until 28th April 2018.
LOVE IS MY RELIGION: KEATS ON LOVE - BOOK LAUNCH ON WEDNESDAY 14 FEBRUARY AT 5 P.M.
From 14 Feb 2018 to 18 Feb 2018 17:00-18:00
14 February 2018 sees the publication of Love is my Religion: Keats on Love, published by and exclusively sold at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.
The book brings together some of the most beautiful love letters and poems ever written, and are all from the pen of English romantic poet John Keats, whose life was cut tragically short at the age of twenty-five.
Keats's letters to Fanny Brawne, the love of his brief, intense life, and the poems inspired by her have been carefully edited by Professor Duncan Wu, a long-standing Trustee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, while rock legend Bob Geldof provides an insightful preface.
All proceeds of this special book will go to the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, which receives no official funding from either Britain or Italy. The book will be available exclusively from our gift shop in Rome, or from our online gift shop http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/en/shop/books
Advance orders of the book may be taken from 23 January 2018, with the first copies available to buy at our book launch at the Keats-Shelley House on 14 February at 5 pm.
The retail price is €10.00, and more details are available by contacting us at [email protected]/ +39 06 678 42 35.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
His event runs until the 18th.
TALK ON JOHN KEATS'S ROMAN DAYS
23 Feb 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
For more information about this event, please check the page in Italian.
Price:
Biglietto d'ingresso
Location:
Salone
“A COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO KEATSIAN POETICS" - A TALK BY KATRINA BRANNON AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
1 Mar 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
Join us on Thursday 1 March at 5 p.m. for a talk by Katrina Brannon, who will give an overview of her innovative academic research in the field of Keats and Linguistics.
Katrina Brannon is a PhD candidate in English linguistics at Sorbonne Université in Paris, France, under the supervision of Professor Wilfrid Rotgé, and a lecturer in the English department at the Université de Caen-Normandie. Her research focuses on the application of cognitive grammar, conceptual metaphor theory, and emotion theory to the poetry of John Keats.
Katrina is also the first recipient of a collaborative Keats-Shelley Memorial Association / Société d’Études du Romantisme Anglais fellowship.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
'ILLUSTRATING FAITH: CHRISTINA ROSSETTI'S DRAWINGS FOR KEBLE'S THE CHRISTIAN YEAR' - A TALK BY DINAH ROE AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
8 Mar 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
'Illustrating Faith: Christina Rossetti's Drawings for Keble's The Christian Year'
Thursday 8th March at 5 p.m.
Advance booking not essential.
Dinah Roe is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, specialising in nineteenth-century poetry and Pre-Raphaelite studies. Her monograph Christina Rossetti’s Faithful Imagination challenged the long-held critical assumption that Rossetti’s creativity was compromised by her religious faith. Other major publications on Rossetti include Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) and an anthology of Pre-Raphaelite poems, The Pre- Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin (Penguin Classics). She is currently working on a monograph entitled The Art of Pre-Raphaelite Poetry.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
'DANTE PER TUTTI' AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
12 Apr 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
Please check the page in Italian for more information about this event.
Price:
€5,00
Location:
Salone
THE EXQUISITE BOOK ART OF PHOEBE ANNA TRAQUAIR - FRIDAY 27 APRIL AT 6:30 P.M.
27 Apr 2018 from 18:30 to 19:30
In occasion of the exhibition Illuminating Poetry: Pre-Raphaelite and Beyond
The Exquisite Book Art of Phoebe Anna Traquair: a lecture by Elizabeth Cumming at the Keats- Shelley House
Friday 27 April at 6:30 p.m.
Advance booking mandatory: [email protected]/ 06 678 42 35
In this illustrated talk art historian and Traquair’s biographer Dr Elizabeth Cumming discusses Traquair’s exquisite manuscripts within the context of her life and work.
Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852-1936) was born and trained as a traditional artist in Dublin. She moved aged twenty-one with her husband to Edinburgh where she became a leading member of the Scottish Arts and Crafts movement. In the 1880s her art included domestic craft such as embroidery and also the remarkable mural decoration of a children’s hospital chapel. Simultaneously she started a career in book art, illuminating poetry and tooling bookcovers. In these early days she corresponded with the writer and critic John Ruskin who lent her medieval manuscripts for close study. Throughout the 1890s, and in addition to her book arts, she worked on an epic scale in decorating the interiors of two fine Edinburgh buildings and embroidering large silk panels she called The Progress of a Soul which interpreted the writing of Walter Pater. In the 1900s she took up enamelling, with pieces to be set as stunning jewellery or display items such as caskets and triptychs.
Traquair was always a literary artist. Her art has a narrative base and is a modern and personal response to a range of poetry. As well as being particularly attracted to Italian art she was inspired by a range of British romantic poets including Alfred Lord Tennyson and the Brownings but more especially visionary painter-poets such as William Blake and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Her illuminated manuscripts have long been recognised as unique in terms of imaginative imagery and application of colour. The finest of these – her interpretations of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese and Rossetti’s The House of Life – are on display here, along with her beautiful manuscript of Dante’s La Vita Nuova made for a friend, the great collector Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
MARY SHELLEY - SPIRIT OF PLACE: A TEMPORARY EXHIBITION AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE 4 MAY - 30 JUNE 2018 From 4 May 2018 to 30 Jun 2018 10:00-18:00 Mary Shelley - Spirit of Place To mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, London artist Louisa Albani has created a collection of artworks that bring together the theme of ‘spirit of place’ with a visual exploration of Mary Shelley’s life leading up to, and following, the creation of her novel. The exhibition is located in the film room of the Keats-Shelley House.
Price:
Free
Location: Film Room
This event above runs until 30th June.
COLPO DI SCENA IN PIAZZA DI SPAGNA, SATURDAY 5 MAY, 2-4 PM
5 May 2018 from 14:00 to 16:00
On Saturday 5 May in Piazza di Spagna the Associazione Nazionale Case della Memoria in conjunction with the Keats-Shelley House will present a series of flash mob performances on the Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti of an exciting new play written by Roberta Calandra and directed by Antonio Serrano.
The project, devised by Giuseppe Albano, Director of the Keats-Shelley House and Regional Co- ordinator for Lazio for the Associazione Nazionale Case della Memoria, will include characters from four historic house museums in Rome, namely poet John Keats, composer Giacinto Scelsi, and artists Toti Scialoja and Giorgio de Chirico. These four personalities represent the four constituent Case della Memoria of the Roman branch of the Associazione Nazionale www.casedellamemoria.it.
These four creative, historical personalities will engage with one another in ways that will inspire spectators to reflect on themes of creativity and interdisciplinary dialogue between the arts, as well as on the artistic, international, cosmopolitan flavour of the Piazza di Spagna area. The initiative is also part of the Keats-Shelley House’s wider mission to increase and widen participation so as to include non-traditional museum audiences, and to foster Anglo-Italian cultural interaction and creative friendship.
The Associazione Nazionale Case della Memoria collaborated with Roberta Calandra and Antonio Serrano in autumn 2017 for a series of intimate theatrical performances in some of the rooms of the Keats-Shelley House. Roberta Calandra also represented the Keats-Shelley House in London in 2016 for the Poetry House Live Show, en extravaganza bringing together short plays from literary houses all over Europe.
The event on 5 May is supported and sponsored by the Forte Charitable Trust.
Price:
Free/ Gratis
Location: Spanish Steps/ Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti
A SYNÆSTHETIC POETRY READING BY MOIRA EGAN, THURSDAY 10 MAY, 6:30 PM
10 May2018 from 18:30 to 19:30
A Synæsthetic Poetry Reading by Moira Egan , Thursday 10 May, 6:30 p.m.
ADVANCE BOOKING NECESSARY
Come join us to celebrate this latest collection of poems by American poet Moira Egan.
Moira's previous books are Botanica Arcana/Strange Botany (Italic Pequod, 2014); Hot Flash Sonnets (Passager Books, 2013); Spin (Entasis Press, 2010); La Seta della Cravatta/The Silk of the Tie (Edizioni l’Obliquo, 2009); Bar Napkin Sonnets (winner of The Ledge 2008 Poetry Chapbook Competition); and Cleave (WWPH, 2004). Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies on four continents, including: The Best American Poetry 2008; The Book of Forms; The Book of Scented Things; and Measure for Measure. With her husband, Damiano Abeni, she has published more than a dozen volumes in translation in Italy, by authors such as Ashbery, Barth, Bender, Ferlinghetti, Hecht, Simic, Strand, Charles Wright, and others.
Book descriptions
Synæsthesium is an unusual exploration of ekphrasis—poetry that takes a real or imagined work of art as its muse. The first half of the book, Olfactorium, is inspired by various fragrances and the olfactory flashbacks—real or imagined—induced by them. From everyday Old Spice to exotic Casbah, the poems take the reader on journeys peppered with the luscious language of perfumery. The second part, Love and Work, is based on the works of Suzanne Valadon, the bold and unconventional model-turned-artist, peer and probable lover of Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, and other painters. The poetic forms—sonnets, syllabics, a villanelle, a rondeau—reflect the content of the paintings and drawings of this great and under-appreciated artist.
The smaller volume, Olfactorium, is a bilingual version of the perfume poems, with translations by Damiano Abeni and Moira Egan, published by Italic PeQuod (Ancona, Italy).
Blurbs
Moira Egan's Synaesthesium, like a unique perfume in a beautiful flask, expertly mingles the base- notes of memory and desire, art and womanhood, in the clear container of form. She writes from deep within the senses, but she spills nothing, with assurance of her craft. When we read these poems, we find that our own senses are renewed.
Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
There is no one writing like Moira Egan. No one. These poems detail irreverent discoveries and always- vivid excursions into unknown worlds. Whether those worlds lie behind the velvet ropes of a bar, the locked-in lush temptation of a gated garden, or in a mother’s history, Egan takes us to places where, at first, you may think you’ve been but, oh no, you definitely haven’t. You may have seen a river wear the gold of sunset followed by the cloak of night; but, I promise, you’ve never seen it like this. Synæsthesium is absolutely gorgeous. The final poem will leave you with chills. Egan has given us one hell of a book. Erica Dawson, winner of The Poets’ Prize
Price:
Advance booking essential - tickets €5.00
Location:
Salone
KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE POETRY PRIZE 2019 - THE WINNERS
28 May 2018 from 10:28 to 12:28
Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up in the twenty-eighth annual Keats-Shelley House Poetry Prize, and special thanks to this year’s guest judge Jackie Kay, who attended the ceremony at the House on 24 May 2018.
The names of the winners and the text of their works may be read here.
IL SEGRETO DI FALKNER: BOOK LAUNCH
31 May2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
For more information about this event, please see the page in Italian.
Price:
Gratis/ Free
Location:
Film Room
JULIAN SANDS'S POETRY READING AND RECEPTION WITH THE ACTOR
15 Jun 2018 from 18:30 to 20:00
Julian Sands, Readings from the Essential Poems of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley
FRIDAY 15 JUNE 6:30 p.m.
Advance booking mandatory: [email protected]/ 06 678 42 35
Join acclaimed and much-loved English actor Julian Sands as he reads some of his personal favourites from Keats and Shelley in a reading to celebrate the anthology titled John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Essential Poems, published in 2016 by the Keats-Shelley House and edited by Duncan Wu, with a preface by Julian Sands himself.
After the reading, a reception will follow, during which there will be the chance to meet and greet the actor, and have books signed by him.
Julian Sands is an English actor who has worked all over the world in Film, TV, Theatre, and Radio. Best known for appearances in films such as: A Room With A View, The Killing Fields, Impromptu, Boxing Helena, Warlock, Leaving Las Vegas, Vatel, Oceans 13, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and others; and on TV: 24, Smallville, and Gotham.
He first visited the Keats-Shelley House in the late 1970s and played Shelley in Ken Russell’s film Gothic. He has toured Europe and America with a theatre production based on the poetry of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.
He lists mountaineering as one of his passions and always takes an anthology of poems on his expeditions.
Price:
€15
Location:
Salone
This event also runs on the 16th.
DANTE AND THE ENGLISH ROMANTICS - A TALK BY IAN THOMSON
7 Sep 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
DANTE AND THE ENGLISH ROMANTICS
A talk by Ian Thomson at the Keats-Shelley House on Friday 7 September at 5 p.m.
Advance booking recommended.
Following the publication of his latest book, Dante's Divine Comedy: A Journey Without End (Head of Zeus, 2018), Ian Thomson will join us at the Keats-Shelley House to talk about some of the ways in which Dante inspired the English Romantic poets.
Ian Thomson is a British author, best known for his biography Primo Levi (2002), which won the Royal Society of Literature W.H.Heinemann Prize, and his multiple prize-winning book of reportage, The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica (2009). He has also translated the Sicilian crime writer Leonardo Sciascia into English. Ian Thomson is currently Senior Lecturer in Creative
Non-Fiction at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
IN BYRON'S WAKE: THE TURBULENT LIVES OF LORD BYRON'S WIFE AND DAUGHTER
20 Sep 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
IN BYRON'S WAKE: THE TURBULENT LIVES OF LORD BYRON'S WIFE AND DAUGHTER
A talk by Miranda Seymour at the Keats-Shelley House on Thursday 20 September at 5 p.m.
Advance booking recommended.
Miranda Seymour is an esteemed British novelist, literary critic, and biographer, whose subjects include Robert Graves, Mary Shelley, and, most recently, Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace, the subjects of her latest book. Miranda will join us at the Keats-Shelley House to speak about that book, titled In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter. Miranda Seymour is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
MARY SHELLEY E L'ITALIA
18 Oct 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
Please check the page in Italian for more information about this event.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
DICKENS AND THE PRE-RAPHAELITES: LUCINDA HAWKSLEY AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
25 Oct 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
Dickens and the Pre-Raphaelites
A talk by Lucinda Hawksley at the Keats-Shelley House on Thursday 25 October at 5 p.m.
Advance booking recommended/ Participation in the event is included in the standard museum entrance ticket.
The relationship between Charles Dickens and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began as a turbulent row - and ended in a strong friendship between Millais and Dickens. The lives of these brilliant young artists and the celebrity writer, all giants of the Victorian cultural scene, became as intertwined as one of Dickens’s own plots. Come and discover the stories behind the Pre- Raphaelites and their Dickens connections.
Lucinda Hawksley is an author, art historian and broadcaster from London. She has written more than twenty books, including biographies of the artists Lizzie Siddal, Kate Perugini (née Dickens) and Princess Louise. She has also written widely about her great great great grandfather, Charles Dickens.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
WHY LITERATURE MATTERS: THE CASE OF MARY SHELLEY
31 Oct 2018 from 18:00 to 19:30
John Cabot University in collaboration with the Keats-Shelley House Rome, is delighted to present our co-sponsored #FrankenReads event: the inaugural lecture in our Literature Matters Series given by esteemed poet and writer Professor Fiona Sampson, the author of In Search of Mary Shelley: the girl who wrote 'Frankenstein'.
In her words, "Mary Shelley's is a life that was shaped, possibly limited, yet arguably also redeemed by literature. Admittedly, she is a special case. Nevertheless, the true story of the precocious talent who produced two of our culture's most enduring archetypes - the overreaching scientist Frankenstein, and the not quite human he creates - has much to teach us about the writing life and what it can achieve."
FREE ENTRANCE/ Booking required (please contact JCU: [email protected])
IMPORTANT: This event WILL NOT take place at the Keats- Shelley House but at the Aula Magna Regina of the Guarini Campus, John Cabot University, Via della Lungara 233, 00165, Rome.
Price:
Free
Location:
JCU, Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus, Via della Lungara 233, 00165, Rome
BELLA ITALIA - AN AFTERNOON OF POETRY AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, THURSDAY 15 NOVEMBER AT 5 P.M.
15 Nov 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
BELLA ITALIA
'The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.' —Mary Shelley.
To mark the anniversary of John Keats's arrival in Rome in 1820, the team of Poetry Ambassadors from Keats House in London will read some of their favourite poetry (mainly by 19th century English-speaking travellers) extolling the serene and occasionally chaotic beauty of Italy, a beauty that Keats himself was never able to enjoy.
Advance booking is recommended/ Participation in the event is included in the standard museum entrance ticket.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
EVENT CANCELLED BOOK LAUNCH: CONVERSAZIONI SHAKESPEARIANE, BY LUIGI GIANNITRAPANI
30 Nov 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
Please check the page in Italian for more information about this event.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
AUSTRALIAN POETRY NOW: LAND, COUNTRY AND ENVIRONMENT
14 Dec2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
Australian poetry now: land, country and environment
FRIDAY 14 DECEMBER at 5 p.m.
Desert, sea, bush, rainforest, pastoral lease, contested country: Australian colonial poetry of the land has a long and vivid history, riven by politics and romance in equal part. Decades after the influential lyrical, activist poetries of Judith Wright and Oodgeroo Noonuccal, a new generation of poets, compelled by urgent local and global ecological themes, is writing back to pastoral themes, re-thinking the colonial romanticisation of landscape.
Three award-winning Australian writers, Emily Bitto, A. Frances Johnson and Anthony Lynch, will read their favourite Australian ‘nature’ poems and share examples of their own poems exploring notions of land and ecology.
Join us before Christmas for a dynamic snapshot of Australian environmental poetry now!
Advance booking recommended (06 678 42 35/ [email protected]). Space is limited so people who have not booked will be welcome on a first come first served basis.
BIO NOTES:
EMILY BITTO
Emily Bitto is an Australian writer of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. She has a Masters in Literary Studies and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including The Sydney Morning Herald, Meanjin, Heat and the Australian Literary Review. Her novel,The Strays, was shortlisted for the 2015 Indie Prize and the Dobbie Award, and won the prestigious Stella Prize in 2015. The novel has subsequently been published in America, Canada, the UK and Portugal. Emily is the current recipient of an Australia Council residency in the BR Whiting Studio in Rome.
A. FRANCES JOHNSON
A. Frances Johnson is a poet, novelist and painter, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne where she lectures in Poetry and Contemporary Eco-fiction. She is the author of a novel (Eugene’s Falls, Arcadia 2007) and three collections of poetry. In 2015, she won the Griffith University-Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize for ‘The Book of Interdictions’. Her most recent poetry collection, Rendition for Harp and Kalashnikov (Puncher and Wattmann, 2018) was shortlisted for the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature, Best Writing Award. She was the 2017 recipient of the Australia Council residency in the BR Whiting Studio in Rome.
ANTHONY LYNCH
Anthony Lynch is a Melbourne writer of fiction, poetry and reviews. His work has appeared in publications including The Age, The Best Australian Poems, The Best Australian Stories, Meanjin and Southerly, and been read on ABC Radio National. He is a frequent reviewer for Australian Book Review and The Australian. His short story collection Redfin (Arcadia) was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, and his poetry collection Night Train (Clouds of Magellan) was runner-up in the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. He works as a senior editor, and he is the publisher for Whitmore Press (https://whitmorepress.com), which specialises in poetry.
Price:
Entrance ticket (€5.00)
Location:
Salone
EVENT CANCELLED - DREAR NIGHTED DECEMBER - A CELEBRATION OF KEATS AT CHRISTMAS - FRIDAY 21 DECEMBER AT 5 P.M.
21 Dec 2018 from 17:00 to 18:00
Event cancelled.
Mulled wine and mince pies will still be available from 4 p.m.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
LADY FRANKENSTEIN E L’ORRENDA PROGENIE
17 Jan 2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
Please check the page in Italian for more information about this event.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
KEATS AND MYTHOLOGY (1819-2019): AN EXPLORATORY WEEKEND - ROME, 22 AND 23 FEBRUARY 2019
From 22 Feb 2019 to 23 Feb 2019 09:30-17:00
Keats and Mythology (1819-2019): An Exploratory Weekend
Rome, 22-23 February 2019
This conference celebrating the bicentenary of Keats’s annus mirabilis, 1819, is organised by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association in collaboration with the Société d'Études du Romantisme Anglais and hosted at the British School at Rome with tours of the Keats-Shelley House and Non- Catholic Cemetery. The conference is supported by the Keats-Shelley Association of America’s Romantic Bicentennials fund and organised by Giuseppe Albano, Curator/Director of the Keats- Shelley House, Caroline Bertonèche, from the University of Grenoble Alpes and President of the SERA (Société d’Études du Romantisme Anglais), and Maria Valentini from the University of Cassino and Chair of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association in Rome.
All papers will be given on Friday 22nd February, and participants remaining in Rome on Saturday 23rd February will be invited to take part in special tours of the Non-Catholic Cemetery, where Keats and Shelley are buried, and of the Keats-Shelley House, Keats’s final dwelling place, in order to mark the anniversary of Keats’s death.
The conference includes the premiere performance of Bright Stars, a musical and literary performance by Rory Stuart.
All speakers and attendees must register in advance by contacting [email protected] / +39 06 678 42 35
Registration fee €50
For more information about the programme, please click HERE.
Price:
€50.00
Location:
British School at Rome
BRIGHT STARS: A CONCERT FOR THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
22 Feb 2019 from 18:15 to 20:00
BRIGHT STARS
A concert for the Keats-Shelley House
A new musical and literary exploration of some parallels in the lives of Franz Schubert and John Keats
The venue for the concert is the British School at Rome Via Antonio Gramsci, 61, 00197.
British School at Rome
Friday 22nd February 2019
6.15 p.m.
Tickets €15.00
Bookings must be made in advance by contacting: [email protected] / 06 678 42 35
Singers: James Varah and Shelagh Stuchbery
Accompanist: Paige Short Thompson
Readers: Fabiana de Rose, Edoardo Camponeschi, Shane Harnett.
Technical: Michael Fitzpatrick
Written by Rory Stuart
Price:
€15.00
Location:
British School at Rome
STANZE | ODES TO THE PRESENT
From 28 Feb 2019 to 7 Sep 2019 10:00-18:00
STANZE | Odes to the Present
An Exhibition of T-yong Chung's works
Curated by Fulvio Chimento
28 February - 10 August 2019
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Keats-Shelley House SOLD OUT - JULIAN SANDS'S POETRY READING AND RECEPTION WITH THE ACTOR
8 Mar 2019 from 17:30 to 19:00
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT AND IT IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO PLACE BOOKING INQUIRIES.
Julian Sands, Readings from the Essential Poems of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley
FRIDAY 08 MARCH 5:30 p.m./ SOLD OUT
Join acclaimed and much-loved English actor Julian Sands as he reads some of his personal favourites from Keats and Shelley in a reading to celebrate an anthology published by the Keats- Shelley Memorial Association titled John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Essential Poems, edited by Duncan Wu and with a preface by Julian Sands.
After the reading, a reception will follow in which will be the chance to meet and greet the actor, and have books signed by him.
Julian Sands is an English actor who has worked all over the world in Film, TV, Theatre, and Radio. Best known for appearances in films such as: A Room With A View, The Killing Fields, Impromptu, Boxing Helena, Warlock, Leaving Las Vegas, Vatel, Oceans 13, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and others; and on TV: 24, Smallville, and Gotham.
He first visited the Keats-Shelley House in the late 1970s and played Shelley in Ken Russell’s film Gothic. He has toured Europe and America with a theatre production based on the poetry of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.
He lists mountaineering as one of his passions and always takes an anthology of poems on his expeditions.
Price:
€15
Location:
Salone
'PHILOSOPHIC NUMBERS SMOOTH': A TALK BY KEATS-SHELLEY PRIZE 2018 WINNER TARA LEE
14 Mar2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
Thursday 14th March at 5 p.m.
Tara Lee is a doctoral student in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and a member of Corpus Christi College. Her thesis looks at William Blake's mechanical and organic figures, studying Blake's attitude towards organisation with an ecocritical nuance.
Tara was the winner of the Keats-Shelley Prize 2018 for her essay 'Philosophic numbers smooth', which will inspire her lecture at the Keats-Shelley House.
Advance booking not essential
Price:
Entrance ticket.
Location:
Salone
'THE RUINS OF TIME': WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE ART OF THE ETERNAL CITY
22 Mar 2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
'The Ruins of Time': William Blake and the Art of the Eternal City
Friday 22nd March at 5 p.m.
A lecture by Andrew Warren at the Keats-Shelley House
Advance booking recommended
Participation is included in the standard museum entrance ticket.
Andrew Warren is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in Harvard's Department of English. He co-directs the Mahindra Humanities Center's Seminar in Dialectical Thinking, and teaches and writes about Romanticism, poetry, philosophy and critical theory. His book, The Orient and the Young Romantics, was published in 2014 by Cambridge University Press. His current book project, Romantic Entanglements: the Figure of an Era, 1759-1845, is about how people thought and wrote about connections, and disconnections, in the long eighteenth century.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
'THE POETICS OF UNCONTROLLABILITY IN KEATS'S ENDYMION': A TALK BY ANNA ANSELMO
29 Mar 2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
Friday 29 March at 5 p.m.
Advance booking not essential/ Participation included in the standard museum entrance ticket.
Anna Anselmo is a PhD in English Literature in the Department of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures at the Catholic University of Milan. She has been the Director of Studies for an International Language School and taught English at Brescia State University. She is currently teaching English Language and Culture at the University of Vallée d’Aoste and Milan State University. Her research interests focus on the long Eighteenth Century, Romantic Periodicals, Twentieth-century Poetry, Cultural Criticism, and the Digital Humanities. She has published articles on John Keats (2011, 2013) Seamus Heaney (2016), and Anglo-French Fashion Terminology between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (2014). She has edited two poetry collections: An Introduction to Gray and Goldsmith (2011) and Twentieth-Century Poets: A Selection with Notes (2011). More recently, she has published her first book: The Poetics of Uncontrollability in Keats’s Endymion: Language Theory and Romantic Periodicals (Cambridge Scholars, 2016).
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
SOLD OUT - BOB GELDOF READS FROM THE LETTERS AND POEMS OF JOHN KEATS
11 Apr 2019 from 18:00 to 19:30
THURSDAY 11 APRIL at 6 p.m. - SOLD OUT
Legendary rock star and philanthropist Bob Geldof KBE will read some of the most beautiful and profound writing about love ever to appear in the English language, namely the love letters and poems by John Keats. In 2018 Bob Geldof contributed a preface to the book Love is my Religion: Keats on Love, selected and edited by Duncan Wu and published by the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.
After the reading, a reception will follow in which the audience will have the chance to meet and greet Bob Geldof, and have books signed by him.
Bob Geldof is a musician and does other stuff as well. He was born in Ireland in 1951. He likes Yeats, Keats, Larkin, some Elliot and Auden, a bit of Shelley, Blake, Dickinson and Whitman and a few others. He recently wrote and presented an award-winning film on Yeats for the BBC...and that's about it.
Price:
€15.00
Location:
This event happens again on the 12th. ALEXSANDR PUSKIN: POESIE D'AMORE E EPIGRAMMI: TUESDAY 14TH MAY AT 4.30 PM
14 May 2019 from 16:30 to 18:00
Please check the page in Italian for more information about this event.
Price:
Entrance ticket.
Location:
Salone
JOHN KEATS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN/PETRARCHAN SONNET
16 May 2019 from 17:00 to 17:00
'John Keats and the Pythagorean/Petrarchan Sonnet'
A talk by poet Lee Slonimsky at the Keats-Shelley House on Thursday 16 May at 5 p.m.
Entrance included in the museum standard entrance ticket/ Advance booking recommended (06 678 42 35 - [email protected])
Space is limited so people who have not booked will be welcome on a first come first served basis.
Lee Slonimsky, an American poet and hedge fund manager, has been exploring the influence of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras for the past twenty years. His sonnet sequence PYTHAGORAS IN LOVE (2007) was selected for both the US poetry website Poetry Daily, and for a feature story by Bloomberg News, and he has gone on to publish a total of eight books, many featuring poems about Pythagoras. In 2016 he lectured on Pythagoras’s influence on poetry at the Athens Academy, paired with a lecture by the American poet and friend of philosophy living in Greece Ginger F. Zaimis. New and exciting research since has directly tied Pythagoras to Petrarch in the form of a rediscovered essay by the latter. Petrarch, quite possibly Shakespeare’s favourite poet, leads directly to the brilliant sonnet writing and critical achievements of John Keats.
PYTHAGORAS IN LOVE has been translated into French by the esteemed American poet Elizabeth J. Coleman (2015), and is currently being translated into modern Greek by the distinguished Greek poet Stamatis Polenakis.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
JACKIE KAY AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
25 May 2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
The Scots Makar (Scottish Poet Laureate) Jackie Kay, MBE, FRSE will be the special guest of the Keats-Shelley House on Saturday the 25th of May at 5 p.m..
On this occasion she will read a selection of her celebrated poems, which have been beautifully rendered into Italian by Floriana Marinzuli and Bernardino Nera in the edition titled Compagna [Original title: Fiere], Giuliano Ladolfi Editore, 2018.
Advance booking is mandatory as the number of seats is limited. Please call on 06 678 42 35 or email [email protected] for more information.
Jackie Kay is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays, whose subtle investigation into the complexities of identity have been informed by her own life. Born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and Nigerian father, she was adopted as a baby by a white couple. Kay's awareness of her different heritages inspired her first book of poetry, The Adoption Papers, which dramatises her experience through the creation of three contrasting narrators: an adoptive mother, a birth mother and a daughter. The book was a great success, winning the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year and a commendation from the Forward Poetry Prize judges. Subsequent collections and her celebrated first novel, Trumpet, have continued to explore issues of cultural and sexual identity as well as the intimacies and upheavals of love. Kay has also written poetry for children and her first children's novel, Strawgirl, was published in 2002. She currently lives in Manchester.
Jackie Kay is also the Guest Judge of the twenty-eighth Keats-Shelley House Poetry Prize for Schools.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
KARL KIRCHWEY READS FROM "POEMS OF ROME"
3 Jun 2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
Karl Kirchwey reads from Poems of Rome
Keats-Shelley House, Monday, June 03, 2019, 5 p.m.
Karl Kirchwey edited the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets series volume entitled Poems of Rome (2018). It includes English-language poems about the Eternal City from the Renaissance to the present by poets including Louise Bogan, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Browning, Byron, Jorie Graham, Thomas Hardy, Felicia Hemans, Keats, Czeslaw Milosz, Adrienne Rich, Christina Rossetti, Shelley, May Swenson, Swinburne, Richard Wilbur, Oscar Wilde, and Wordsworth. It also includes translations of Latin poems by Horace, Martial and Ovid, and of Italian poets including G.G. Belli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Cesare Pavese, and Giorgio Vigolo. The book is arranged for the convenience of the visitor according to “Places,” “Buildings and Monuments,” “Picture Galleries and Museums,” and “Churches,” and includes as well poems about sites outside of Rome. Karl Kirchwey will read from this anthology as well as from his own most recent book, Stumbling Blocks: Roman Poems.
Karl Kirchwey is the author of seven books of poems, including two specifically situated in Rome: The Engrafted Word (1998) and Stumbling Blocks: Roman Poems (2017). His translation of French poet Paul Verlaine’s first book was published as Poems Under Saturn (2011), and he is working on translations of a selection of poems by Italian poet Giovanni Giudici (1924-2011). Karl Kirchwey has received the Rome Prize in Literature and the Cato Prize as well as grants from the NEA and the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations. He was Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome (2010-13), and is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston University, where he is currently serving as Associate Dean of Faculty for the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Price:
Entrance Ticket.
Location:
Salone
BOOK LAUNCH: 'THE SOUR FRUIT. LORD BYRON, LOVE & SEX', BY VINCENZO PATANÈ
14 Jun 2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
Please check the page in Italian for more information about this event.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
PETERLOO AT 200: HISTORIES, NARRATIVES, REPRESENTATIONS
5 Jul 2019 from 14:00 to 19:00
Peterloo at 200: Histories, Narratives, Representations
Keats-Shelley House, Rome, Friday 5 July 2019
The Peterloo Massacre, which took place on 16 August 1819 and inspired P. B. Shelley's 'Masque of Anarchy', has been dubbed 'the bloodiest political event of the nineteenth century on English soil'. Its psychological, sociocultural and political reverberations reach far and wide.
The 2019 bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre calls for reappraisal and questioning through the (sometimes) distorting, yet revealing lens of narrative – that is, through the numerous ways in which Peterloo has been represented and retold in literature, art, on stage and on film.
Speakers: Serena Baiesi (Bologna), Soelve I. Curdts (Düsseldorf), Franca Dellarosa (Bari), Gary Kelly (Alberta), Alison Morgan (Warwick) Diego Saglia (Parma), Simon Swift (Geneva)
Keynote Speaker: Lilla Maria Crisafulli (Bologna) scientific committee: Giuseppe Albano (Keats-Shelley House) Anna Anselmo (Valle d’Aosta), Marco Canani (Milano)
Registration fee €25 for non-speaking delegates. Advanced booking essential: [email protected] / +39 06 678 42 35
Price:
Registration fee €25 for non-speaking delegates.
Location:
Salone/ Film Room
NATHANAEL O’REILLY - POETRY READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
19 Jul 2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
Friday 19th July at 5 p.m.
Advance booking recommended ([email protected]/ 06 678 42 35)
Standard museum entrance ticket applies.
Nathanael O’Reilly was born and raised in Australia. He has travelled on five continents and spent extended periods in England, Ireland, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, where he currently resides. More than 150 of his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies in twelve countries, including Antipodes, A New Ulster, Australian Love Poems, Cordite, FourW, Glasgow Review of Books, Headstuff, LiNQ, Mascara, Postcolonial Text, Snorkel, Tincture, Transnational Literature, Verity La and The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2017. He is the author of Preparations for Departure (UWAP Poetry, 2017), named one of the “2017 Books of the Year” in Australian Book Review; Distance (Picaro Press, 2014; Ginninderra Press, 2015); and the chapbooks Cult (Ginninderra Press, 2016), Suburban Exile (Picaro Press, 2011) and Symptoms of Homesickness (Picaro Press, 2010). O’Reilly received an Emerging Writers Grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts in 2010; he was the writer-in-residence at Booranga Writers’ Centre in May 2017 and has given invited readings in Australia, Canada, England, Hungary, Ireland, and the United States.
Price:
Entrance Fee
Location:
Salone
SOLD OUT JULIAN SANDS'S POETRY READING AND RECEPTION WITH THE ACTOR
6 Sep 2019 from 18:00 to 19:30
WE REGRET TO INFORM OUR VISITORS THAT THIS SPECIFIC READING IS NOW SOLD OUT AND WE ARE NO LONGER IN A POSITION TO ACCEPT BOOKING INQUIRIES FOR IT.
Price:
€15
Location:
Salone
WRITTEN IN WATER: A CELEBRATION OF JOHN KEATS IN 1819
3 Oct 2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
Written in Water: A Celebration of John Keats in 1819
A bold poetic exploration of Keats's most creative year in poetry written and performed by poet Andrew Mitchell, with musical accompaniment by the Pixel Trio: flautist Katie MacDonald, violinist Beatriz Rola, and cellist Anna Litvinenko.
Thursday 3rd October at 5 p.m.
The year 1819 was the one in which John Keats wrote many of his best loved poems, beginning with ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ and ending with the ‘Ode to Autumn’. From his long narrative poem sequence, ‘Written in Water’, acclaimed British poet Andrew Mitchell will read the section which covers this highly creative time in Keats’s life. It is the only part of the poem which assumes Keats’s own voice and attempts to consider his thinking on life, love and poetry at that time.
The event will consist of three parts: an introduction to Keats in 1819; selected readings from the poems; a performance from ‘Written in Water’ with illustrations and music.
Participation is included in the standard museum entrance ticket. Booking is mandatory ([email protected]/ 06 678 42 35)
Andrew Mitchell is a narrative poet with experience of incorporating music, dance and song into poetry performance. His current project, A Paradise of Exiles, is a sequence of poems based round the lives and work of the younger British Romantic Poets. He visits Rome this October to read from his long narrative, ‘Written in Water’, on the life, work and ideas of John Keats. This visit is to celebrate the bicentenary of John Keats’s great poems written in 1819. He returns to Rome to mark the bicentenary of Keats’s death in 2021. This performance comes directly from The British Library in London. He is an Honorary Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester.
“Who wrote the music?” is the typical question put to Pixel Trio. Flautist Katie MacDonald, violinist Beatriz Rola, and cellist Anna Litvinenko have built an intense musical relationship together: performing, composing, and improvising in varied forms and settings. All three are classical musicians, conservatoire trained, who have collectively attended: Royal Academy of Music, London; Royal College of Music, London; Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London; The Juilliard School, New York; Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, Holland. Since their training, all have followed distinctive paths both individually and as an ensemble. Collaborations with other artists which have inspired them include one with poet Andrew Mitchell and artist Mary Kuper. Here they contributed to a multi-media performance based on Mitchell’s long narrative poem ‘Villa Diodati’ on the story of Frankenstein at The British Library and Keats House, Hampstead, to mark the bicentenary of the novel’s publication in 2018. Though their music has its roots in the classical tradition, each project takes its own unique direction.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location: Salone
JOHN KEATS AND VIRGINIA WOOLF: FROM HAMPSTEAD TO ROME
From 8 Oct 2019 to 23 Feb 2020 10:00-18:00
JOHN KEATS AND VIRGINIA WOOLF: FROM HAMPSTEAD TO ROME
Drawings by Roberto Einaudi
8 October 2019 - 23 February 2020
A deft and inspiring exhibition of works by Roberto Einaudi exploring parallels in the lives and works of John Keats and Virginia Woolf.
Please note the exhibition will still be open to visitors during the temporary closure of the museum and library from 8 December till 23 February.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Museum
This event continues until 23rd February2020.
BRIGHT STAR: A CELEBRATION OF JOHN KEATS'S BIRTHDAY WITH POETRY AND LETTERS READ BY RUTH ROSEN
31 Oct 2019 from 18:00 to 20:00
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN KEATS
Come celebrate John Keats's birthday this year with a performance of BRIGHT STAR - An evening of John Keats's love letters and poems performed by Ruth Rosen at the Keats-Shelley House
Thursday 31 October, 6 p.m., followed by a toast to Keats with prosecco.
Award-winning performer Ruth Rosen's acclaimed Bright Star performance is based on a selection of all of Keats's writing, including his love letters to Fanny and the love poems. The poetry includes the great Odes, extracts from Endymion, sonnets and other poems. There are also extracts from his letters to his family and friends; and it is all woven together to tell the extraordinary, very moving and inspiring story of this young genius, his struggles, his great creativity and at the same time his emerging and developing psyche.
Tickets cost €12 and must be purchased in advance (06 678 42 35; [email protected]).
Price:
€12.00
Location:
Salone
'HO INCONTRATO MARY SHELLEY'
7 Nov 2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
Please check the page in Italian for more information about this event.
Price:
Entrance Ticket
Location:
Salone
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AND THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE. AN EXPLORATION OF THE POET’S WRITINGS IN ITALIAN
15 Nov 2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Italian language. An exploration of the poet’s writings in Italian
A talk by Valentina Varinelli, current Northern Bridge Research Fellow at the Keats-Shelley House
Friday 15 November at 5 p.m.
Advance booking not essential
Participation is included in the standard museum entrance ticket
ABSTRACT: Like many of his contemporaries, Percy Bysshe Shelley began to study Italian at a young age by reading Italian literature. Later, in the course of his four-year residence in Italy, Shelley started writing in Italian, and he produced a number of literary and non-literary works in that language. These include self-translations, original verse and prose compositions, private letters, and a theatre review. None of Shelley’s writings in Italian were published in his lifetime, and so far they have received limited scholarly attention. However, these works are an integral part of the poet’s experience of Italy, and they attest to his direct engagement with the contemporary Italian cultural, political, and literary situation.
Valentina Varinelli is an AHRC-funded PhD student at Newcastle University. Her research project consists in a literary and linguistic analysis and a new edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s verse and prose writings in Italian. Her research interests include the works of Mary Shelley, Romantic theories and practice of translation, Anglo-Italian literary relations, travel writing in Italy, textual editing. Valentina is assistant editor and co-translator of the latest two-volume Italian anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s works (Meridiani Mondadori, 2018), and is responsible for the translation and editorial commentary of a number of prose pieces, including the Shelleys’ History of a Six Weeks’ Tour.
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
BOOK LAUNCH: THE MERIDIANI MONDADORI EDITION OF JOHN KEATS'S WORKS, BY NADIA FUSINI
27 Nov 2019 from 18:00 to 19:30
On Wednesday the 27th of November at 6 p.m. the Keats-Shelley House will host the launch of the important book Keats: Opere (Meridiani Mondadori, 2019), edited by Nadia Fusini, who will also lead the event. The translators of the volume, Roberto Deidier and Viola Papetti, will also take part in the presentation.
Nadia Fusini, scholar in English and comparative literature, had previously edited the Meridiani Mondadori edition of Virginia Woolf's works. She has published many essays and novels, the latest being María (Einaudi, 2019).
Entrance is free of charge but booking is mandatory: 06 678 42 35/ [email protected]
Price:
Free/ Booking Mandatory
Location:
Salone
ANGLOLIGURIA: MASSIMO BACIGALUPO AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
5 Dec 2019 from 17:00 to 18:00
Please check the Italian page for more information about this event
Price:
Entrance ticket
Location:
Salone
ODES AND FESTIVE CHEER AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE
20 Dec 2019 from 15:00 to 18:00
Odes and Festive Cheer at the Keats-Shelley House
Friday 20 December, 3 to 6 p.m.
No Booking required
Join us for an afternoon of mulled wine, mince pies, and poetry, as we celebrate Christmas at the Keats-Shelley House with the launch of Odes for John Keats, published by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association as part of our Keats-Shelley200 programme.
This new volume of Odes by leading contemporary poets in English and Italian celebrates the bicentenary of Keats’s Great Odes composed in 1819. Some of the contributing poets will be present to read their work and help us celebrate.
Price:
Free Entry
Location:
Gift Shop/ Film Room
OPEN HOUSE RESTORATION WORKSHOP
From 24 Feb 2020 to 15 Mar 2020 10:00-18:00
Over the next few weeks restorer Rita Canneori will be working in-house, restoring and cleaning a series of important items from the museum collection, including portrait busts, cameo reliefs, and the life and death masks of John Keats. Visitors to the Keats-Shelley House until mid-March will be able to view this work in progress, as well as the completed ceilings in the library and Keats apartment.
The museum's opening times are 10 - 13 and 14 - 18 Monday to Saturday.
Price:
€6 adults tickets/ €5 for concessions.
Location:
26, Piazza di Spagna
This event runs until the 15th march.
KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE SYNCHRONISED READING GROUP
1 Apr 2020 from 12:00 to 13:00
The Keats-Shelley House is starting a weekly synchronised reading group. From 1st April, every Wednesday at 12 p.m. (GMT) we will read a short passage – of poetry, prose, drama, recipe books – in the isolation of our home for, say, 15 minutes.
We simply invite you to join us, from wherever and whenever you are, and read the same text at the same time – alone and together, if you will. If the time zones make this impractical, please feel free to begin at your own particular 12 p.m.. Or even a quarter past. We’re not keeping score. And that pretty much is that. No preparation. No Zoom hangouts. Oh, and no April Fool. Just a community of readers.
The idea was inspired by John Keats. On 16th December 1818, he wrote from London to his brother George and sister-in-law Georgiana in Kentucky. With letters their only point of contact, the relationship had become essentially literary, conducted through writing and reading rather than speaking and listening. Keats pondered this question for a couple of paragraphs, before making the following suggestion: ‘I shall read a passage of Shakespeare every Sunday at ten oClock – you read one at the same time and we shall be as near each other as blind bodies can be in the same room.’ Whether the Keatses ever attempted their Shakespearean prayer meeting is unclear. But in an age before times zones, it would probably have occurred four hours apart.
Another reason why Los Angeles residents shouldn’t set their alarms for 5 a.m., and those in Sydney don’t have to delay going to bed until 11 p.m.. Unless of course they want to. By emulating this ingenious plan, we hope to harness reading’s intimate introspection, and also create a Keatsian community across our own various and hopefully temporary isolations. We will announce each week’s text on our Twitter and Facebook pages, where you can leave a comment or suggest a future reading.
In honour of Keats’ original idea, we will start with something by Shakespeare which we will post shortly on our Blog: https://keats-shelley.org/blog
This event runs until the end of April every Wednesday.