The Twenty-Five-Year-Old English Poet Who Died of Tuberculosis in Rome in February 1821
John Keats arrived in Rome in November 1820 in the hope that the Italian climate might arrest his advanced pulmonary tuberculosis. He died at the apartment on the Spanish Steps three months later, aged 25, having written essentially all of his major work in the previous three years. He is buried in the Protestant Cemetery near William Shelley.
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