14 nov 1820 - Keats arrives in Rome

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At the suggestion of his doctors, he agreed to move to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. On 13 September, they left for Gravesend and four days later boarded the sailing brig Maria Crowther, where he made the final revisions of "Bright Star". The journey was a minor catastrophe: storms broke out followed by a dead calm that slowed the ship's progress.

21 October the ship reaches Naples harbour, where it is quarantined for ten days because of an outbreak of typhus in London. Meanwhile, Keats writes letters to Fanny in Hampstead. Released from quarantine, Keats and Severn reach Rome on 14 November, where they take up lodgings in the Piazza di Spagna. Keats is cared for by an English doctor and for a short while recovers enough to go riding. On the 10 December Keats suffers a relapse and rapidly weakens.

Keats' house in Rome
Keats wrote his last letter on 30 November 1820 to Charles Armitage Brown; "Tis the most difficult thing in the world to me to write a letter. My stomach continues so bad, that I feel it worse on opening any book – yet I am much better than I was in Quarantine. Then I am afraid to encounter the proing and conning of any thing interesting to me in England. I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence".

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