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The Protestant Cemetery (Italian: Cimitero acattolico) in Rome, often called the English Cemetery, is near Porta San Paolo alongside the Pyramid of Cestius, a small-scale Egyptian-style pyramid built in 30 BC as a tomb and later incorporated into the section of the Aurelian Wall that borders the cemetery. Cypress trees and heavy foliage help this cemetery to mirror the more natural style of cemeteries seen in the lusher regions of Northern Europe. As the Italian name of the cemetery indicates, it is the final resting place of non-Catholics in general, not just Protestants, nor is it restricted by nationality.

The earliest known burial is that of an Oxford student named Langton in 1738. The most famous graves are those of the English poets John Keats (1795-1821) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). Keats died in Rome of tuberculosis. His epitaph, which does not mention him by name, is by his friends Joseph Severn and Charles Brown: "This grave contains all that was mortal, of a YOUNG ENGLISH POET, Who on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his Heart, at the Malicious Power of his Enemies, Desired these Words to be engraven on his Tomb Stone: Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water." Shelley drowned off the Italian RivieraThe Riviera is the coast shared between France and Italy, on the Tyrrhenian Sea, or the Italian Adriatic coast ("Riviera Adriatica"), on the Adriatic Sea. The Italian Riviera The Italian Riviera is the coast both on the west and the east of Genoa, known a and 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 MaryMary Wollstonecraft Shelley ( August 30, 1797 February 1, 1851) was an English writer who is, perhaps, equally-famously remembered as the wife of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus''. Biography M until her death and buried with her in BournemouthBournemouth is a seaside resort in Dorset, on the south coast of England. It is located about 107 miles southwest of London and at Latitude 50. 43N and Longitude 1. 54W; the town overlooks Bournemouth Bay. It had been traditionally considered part of Hamp.

Other notable burials include:

• Hendrik Anderson (1872-1940), sculptor, friend of Henry JamesHenry James ( April 15 1843 February 28, 1916), younger brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James, was a British-American author of the late 19th and early 20th century, best known for novels and novellas based upon themes of morality.
• Karl Brullov (1799-1852), Russian sculptor
• Gregory CorsoGregory Corso ( March 26, 1930 January 17, 2001) was an American poet, the fourth member of the canon of Beat Generation writers (with Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs). Incarcerated in Dannemora for burglary in 1947, Gregory Corso dove into literature, a (1930-2001), American beat generationThe term beat generation was introduced by Jack Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his social circle to the novelist John Clellon Holmes (who published the first novel of the beat generation, titled Go in 1952, along with a manifesto of sorts in th poet
• Carlo Emilio GaddaCarlo Emilio Gadda ( 1893- 1973) is an Italian writer of the 20th century. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jar (1893-1973), Italian novelist
• August von Goethe (1789-1830), son of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; his monument features a medallion by Bertel Thorvaldsen
• Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), Italian philosopher, leader of the Italian Communist Party
• Richard Saltonstall Greenough (1819-1904), American sculptor
• Wilhelm von Humboldt (1794-1803), son of the German diplomat and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Hans von Maares (1837-1887), German painter
• Malwida von Meysenbug (1816-1903), German author
• Axel Munthe (1857-1949), Swedish physician and author
• Thomas Jefferson Page (1808-1899), commander of United States Navy expeditions exploring the Rio de la Plata
• Gottfried Semper (1803-1879), German architect
• Joseph Severn (1793-1879), English painter, consul in Rome, and friend of John Keats, beside whom he is buried
• Franklyn Simmons (1839-1913), American sculptor and painter
• William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), American sculptor, buried beside his wife under his own "Angel of Grief"
• John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), English poet and critic
• Lady Temple (died 1809), wife of Sir Grenville Temple , 9th Baronet
• Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881), English author, friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, beside whose ashes he is buried
• Wilhelm Friedrich Waiblinger (1804-1830), German poet and biographer of Friedrich Hölderlin