Resting place of Keats and Shelly in Rome

(15 Jul 2007)
Rome - July 2007
1. Cemetery sign "Campo Cestio - the old cemetery for non Catholic foreigners"
2. Wide shot cemetery
3. Mid shot people walking in cemetery grounds
4. Tilt down sign listing directions to the graves of English Romantic poets John Keats (1795 - 1821) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), August von Goethe (the son of German poet, playwright and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) and Italian political writer and activist, Antonio Gramsci (1891 - 1937)
5. Close-up tomb statue
6. Pan from cemetery grounds to Pyramid of Cestius (tomb of Ancient Roman priest Caius Cestius)
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Julian Kliemann, Board of directors, the Non-Catholic Cemetery:
"The history of this cemetery goes back to the 18th century and actually you know that for the Protestants it was not easy to be buried here in Rome because it was a Catholic city and so they had to be buried somewhere outside. In fact the first burials took place at night, because the authorities thought it would be offending for the population to see a non-Catholic be buried here."
8. Mid shot couple walking through cemetery
9. Mid shot graves of John Keats and his friend Joseph Severn
10. Close-up Severn's tombstone
11. Close-up vase with a famous quote from Keats inscribed on it: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
12. Close-up inscription on Keats' gravestone "Here lies one whose names is writ in water."
13. Wide of cemetery with Pyramid of Cestius in the background
14. Various Shelley's grave
15. Wide of women walking in cemetery grounds
16. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Michele Garribba, Visitor:
"This is not a cemetery, it is a part of the western world. This place represents much more than a cemetery, because people that wrote things that are part of our culture are buried here."
17. Mid shot tourist, JW. Novotny looking at "Angel of Grief" statue with his wife (Angel of Grief: tomb of American sculptor and poet, William Wetmore Story and his wife, Emelyn Story)
18. Mid shot Angel of Grief statue
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) J.W. Novotny, Tourist from Florida, US:
"The W.W. Story story is that him and his wife came here from Boston after he gave up his job and went into sculpting, he wanted to be an artist. When she died, he created this, his last work for her, and it took him about six or seven years to finish it and after it was finished he died of a broken heart supposedly because there was no medical explanation of why he died, and it is called the Angel of Grief."
20. Mid shot graves
21. Various of section of cemetery where repairs are being made due to fallen tree branch
22. Close-up cat sleeping in cemetery
23. Pan from cemetery maintenance truck to gravestones
24. Wide of sprinklers
25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Julian Kliemann, Board of directors, the Non-Catholic Cemetery:
"It is our aim to maintain more or less as it always has been a very romantic and fascinating place which requires of course a lot of planning. You know a tree which you plant today will be full grown only in 25 or 30 years so you have to make long-term plans and we have to finance it and get the necessary funding for the maintenance of such an important place."
26. Various tombstones
27. Close-up date on a more recent tomb
28. Various tomb and statue of 11 year old Bulgarian boy Georges Volkoff
29. Various sculptures
30. Wide shot cemetery
31. Exterior cemetery
32. Mid shot Roman Aurelian wall
LEAD IN:
Wardens of an Italian cemetery reserved for non-Catholics say they are struggling to maintain the ancient site.
STORYLINE:
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