To mark the anniversary of Keats's arrival in Rome (15 November 1820), the Keats-Shelley House will host the launch of a new Italian edition of ABBA ABBA, Anthony Burgess's 1977 novel set at the... Keats-Shelley House!

The novel, based upon the story of John Keats's final months in Piazza di Spagna, deals with a fictional meeting between the English poet and Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, whose sonnets were translated into English by Burgess himself and are included in the second half of the book.

The Robin publishing house has graciously accepted to re-release a limited edition of this gem of a novel, which comes with a new introduction by the Keats-Shelley House Curator Giuseppe Albano and will be only available for purchase in the museum's gift shop.

The book launch will take place here at the House on Thursday 15 November at 4pm, when the museum curatorial staff, together with the publisher Claudio Maria Messina, will coordinate an informal talk in both English and Italian about the novel, its sonnets, and the house in the 1820s.

In order to reserve a place or to get more information, please call 06 678 42 35 or write to [email protected], thanks.