Just beside the Spanish Steps in Rome is the house where Keats spent the last few months of his life. He was suffering from tuberculosis and had left England in the hope that the Italian climate would improve his health. He arrived in Rome in November 1820, accompanied by his friend Joseph Severn. He died three months later, aged only twenty-five. His last words were to Severn: '...Lift me up for I am dying...I shall die easy...don't be frightened...thank God it has come.'
1 окт 2024
