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From: The Topeka Capital-Journal
Date: 19990712
Author:CANDICE HUGHES

The Associated Press

ROME (AP) An icy blast of bad publicity and indignation has put the chill on an art gala in the Rome cemetery where English poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley are buried, along with hundreds of other foreigners.

For more than two centuries, the secluded Protestant Cemetery, set among cypress trees and ancient Roman ruins, has enchanted those who visit it. "It might make one in love with death to think that one would be buried in so sweet a place," Shelley wrote after seeing Keats' grave. Just a year later, in 1822, Shelley, too, was laid to rest there. News that the ...

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