‘I’ve always been inspired by Keats because of his connection with Rome’, says Italian celebrity at reopening of London museum
Taking her inspiration from John Keats, who wrote to Fanny Brawne that her lips were “the dearest pleasures in the universe”, Nancy Dell’Olio has said that students should be taught how to write “proper love letters” at school.
The Italian former lawyer was guest celebrity at the opening of this year’s Keats festival, which also marks the reopening of the Keats House museum in Hampstead, where the poet lived from 1818 to 1820. “Keats is one of the most romantic poets of the 19th century,” said Dell’Olio, who is better known in the UK media for having dated England football manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, presenting Footballers’ Cribs on MTV and competing on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. “I’ve always been inspired by Keats because of his connection with Rome. In Rome he spent the Indian Summer there, knowing he was going to die.”
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