Keats-Shelley Memorial House was once a hut inhabited by Keats, a famous British poet. In 1820, Keats, who suffered from severe pulmonary disease, came to Rome on the advice of a doctor to recover from his illness and lived at the home of his friend Savis. He died young the next year. Keats'death inspired his friend Shelley to write a poem of mourning. Shelley died in a shipwreck in 1822, and later they were buried together in a Protestant cemetery in Rome.