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The Protestant Cemetery ( in Rome , located near Porta San Paolo alongside the Pyramid Of Cestius , a small-scale Egyptian-style Pyramid built in 30 BCE as a Tomb and later incorporated into the section of the Aurelian Walls that borders the cemetery. Mediterranean Cypress trees and other foliage in the cemetery cause it to mirror the more natural style of cemeteries seen in the lusher regions of Northern Europe . As the name of the cemetery indicates, it is the final resting place of non- Catholics (not only Protestants or English People ).

The earliest known burial is that of an and was cremated on the shore near Viareggio . His ashes were interred in the Protestant Cemetery; his heart, which his friend Edward John Trelawny had snatched from the flames, was kept by his widow Mary Shelley until her death and buried with her in Bournemouth .


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REFERENCES

  • ''International Herald Tribune''; Elisabeth Rosenthal; February 8, 2006; "A Cemetery of Poets Is in Crisis in Rome"



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