{"id":5129,"date":"2011-02-03T22:36:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T06:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2011-06-07T03:17:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T10:17:06","slug":"on-february-3rd-2011-cimitero-degli-acattolici-al-testaccio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2011\/02\/03\/on-february-3rd-2011-cimitero-degli-acattolici-al-testaccio\/","title":{"rendered":"On February 3rd, 2011, CIMITERO DEGLI ACATTOLICI AL TESTACCIO…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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low winter sun through the cypress of Il Cemitero Acatolico di Roma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…or “Cimitero degli Inglesi<\/a>,” or ‘The Protestant Cemetery in Rome,” or the cemetery of artists and poets – such as Keats and Shelley – is a mysterious hidden place partially enclosed by the Aurelian Walls<\/a> and in the shadow of the ancient Roman Piramide Cestia<\/a> which I often pass on my bike, but on this warm sunny afternoon we find the hidden side entry and wander the green burial sanctuary (cemeteries being a frequent point of interest when seeking out visits to the major green spaces appearing on the maps of the cities I find myself in) dating back at least to 1748 when it appears in Nolli’s map of Rome<\/a> – and is the final resting place for nearly 4000 non-Catholic citizens of mostly Britain, Germany, Greece, Russia, Scandinavia, China, and even some Italians – and having always imagined being sprinkled around some tree when the time comes (or like Andy Warhol – “When I die I don’t want to leave any leftovers. I’d like to disappear. People wouldn’t say he died today, they’d say he disappeared. But I do like the idea of people turning into dust or sand…”<\/em>), today I am surprised to feel a little desire for a modest piece of stone here with my name on it (or better yet – nameless like Keats<\/a>) where future visitors can come to pile scavenged oranges – as my friend did today on the grave of the Italian poet whose work she is translating – and then comforting to read that Goethe had similar feelings while on his ‘Italian Journeys<\/a>‘ almost 225 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…or “Cimitero degli Inglesi,” or ‘The Protestant Cemetery in Rome,” or the cemetery of artists and poets – such as Keats and Shelley – is a mysterious hidden\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[687],"tags":[755,756,757,1759,656],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape","tag-cemeteries","tag-john-keats","tag-percy-shelley","tag-rome","tag-testaccio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}