On Thursday, October 2 at 5 p.m., AUR's Professor Fabio Barry will present A Monument… Loftier than the Pyramids. Verses Immemorial and Remembrance of Poets at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.
The talk explores the enduring dialogue between poetry and architecture as forms of memorial, tracing a lineage from Pindar and Propertius through Petrarch, Ariosto, Keats, and Shelley. Beginning with Keats’s modest Roman grave—marked only by a lyre with a broken string—Professor Barry examines how poets and their admirers have sought to immortalize verse in both stone and memory.
An internationally recognized scholar, Professor Barry studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and art history at Columbia University, and has taught at the University of St. Andrews and Stanford University. His acclaimed book Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity until the Enlightenment (Yale University Press, 2020) won multiple awards, including Apollo Magazine’s “Book of the Year.”
Admission is free but advance booking is required due to limited seating. For reservations, please contact info@keats-shelley-house.org.