Welcome to the website of the Keats-Shelley House, Rome. Situated
on the Spanish Steps, the House was the final home of John Keats,
who died here in 1821, aged just 25.

The exterior of the House is exactly as it was when Keats travelled to Rome to spend the last few months of his life in a vain attempt to stave
off the inevitable effects of consumption. The House, which opened to
the public in 1909, now contains an extensive collection of paintings, sculpture, manuscripts, relics and first editions which celebrate the lives
of Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Other highlights of our collection include a reliquary containing locks of John Milton and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s hair, Byron’s wax carnival mask and manuscripts by Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Keats’s friend and travelling companion Joseph Severn. The House contains one of the finest libraries of Romantic literature in the world; now numbering more than 8,000 volumes more titles are added yearly.

Many thousands of people visit the House every year in tribute to Keats's genius, and that of Shelley, to whom the House is also dedicated.