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Italian jeweller backs facelift for Keats's graveyard

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20060319
Author:HILARY CLARKE

WEALTHY benefactors are stepping in to help to save the dilapidated Protestant cemetery in Rome where the poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley are buried.

Charitable trusts are being set up in Britain and America to handle the money that has been given following an original donation of ?20,000 ( pounds 13,900) from the Italian jewellery company Bulgari, whose family members, originally Greek orthodox, are also buried there.

The condition of the crumbling cemetery was highlighted recently, a victim of "decades of deferred maintenance'', according to Catherine Payling, its treasurer, who is ...

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