... Cestius Street (near the pyramids). This sacred building was established in early of 1700 for foreigners who were forbidden burial in Catholic cemeteries. Among others, here lie the remains of the two great English poet John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. In more recent times, the Protestant Cemetery became the final resting place for some Italian and between Gramsci. His physical frailty did not prevent him to be among the main opponents of fascism. The vivid intelligence and philosophical culture as well as political commitment were perceived by the hierarchy as extreme danger to the survival of the regime and so they decided to render it harmless to the prison. SEVEN YEARS He was convicted of 20 of which, just because a serious illness. Obtained conditional release in 1934, spent the last three years resident in two clinics in Formia and Rome, where he died.
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