Newsletter
Newsletter of the Friends of the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome
CULTURE, HISTORY, AND Interesting facts
What is the Friends' Newsletter?
The Cemetery’s Newsletter is published four times a year in English and Italian versions. It gives news about progress in looking after the monuments and the beautiful natural setting of the Cemetery. It also publishes a series of short articles about different aspects of the history of the Cemetery and of those who are buried here.
Regular features include columns entitled ‘Who they were’ about interesting characters buried in the Cemetery, and ‘How others see the Cemetery’ which reproduces descriptions of visits here going back to the 18th century as well as present-day media articles and contemporary fiction. ‘Poets in the Cemetery’ is an occasional column that features poetry that has been inspired by this unusual place.
On this website we post the texts of all but the most recent issue of the Newsletter. The current issue is sent to Friends of the Cemetery, who support it by making an annual donation. Copies are also available in the Visitors’ Centre to anyone who wishes to take one.
The first three issues of the Newsletter were edited by the late Chris Huemer who was instrumental in setting up the Friends of the Non-Catholic Cemetery.
Nicholas Stanley-Price
Editor, Newsletter
Newsletters
N.69
Winter 2024
Contents
A new camellia garden (by Amanda Thursfield)
Pine tree falls in Cemetery – please can you help?
The monument to the architect Gottfried Semper (by Nicholas Stanley-Price)
Nora Balzani – a life characterized by love for others (by Loretta Gatti Balzani)
News from the Cemetery
- New initiative for the conservation of tombs with mosaic decoration
Subject, Authors, Names
Index to Authors
Index to Subjects
Index to Names
N.68
Autumn 2024
Contents
Another bicentenary: the moat surrounding the Old Cemetery (1824) (by Nicholas Stanley-Price)
Visitors entering the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius: an unknown view by Fleury Épinat (by Nicholas
Stanley-Price)
The American sculptor Frank Connelly and his Antipodean excursion (by Nicholas Stanley-Price)
News from the Cemetery
- New President elected
- Exhibition by Chiara Valentini
- Conservation of the Wurts tomb
- New inventory of identified sculpture in the Cemetery
Subject, Authors, Names
Index to Authors
Index to Subjects
Index to Names
N.67
Estate 2024
Contents
Roses in the cemetery (by Amanda Thursfield)
The sarcophagus of Scipio Barbatus, copies and souvenirs (by Nicholas Stanley-Price)
A Corfu – Rome connection: Diamantina Palatiano, and her brother Demetrios (by Nicholas Stanley-Price)
News from the Cemetery
- Visit of Tunisian and Italian Ministers for the Disabled
- Exhibition by Miranda Mote
- The Benedict Library transferred to the American Academy in Rome
Subject, Authors, Names
Index to Authors
Index to Subjects
Index to Names
N.66
Spring 2024
Contents
The tomb of August von Goethe: a new interpretation (by Stephan Oswald)
News from the Cemetery
- George Knox, an Irish politician and mineralogist: death on the road to Naples (by Nicholas Stanley-Price)
- Ernest Wyse Keyser (1875-1959), American sculptor (by John Rawley and Nicholas Stanley-Price)
- Pavel Svedomski and a painting in Newport, Rhode Island, USA (by Nicholas Stanley-Price)
Subject, Authors, Names
Index to Authors
Index to Subjects
Index to Names
N.65
Winter 2023
Contents
Pope Francis in an unprecedented visit to the Cemetery on All Souls’ Day
Other news from the Cemetery
- A helping hand with the garden work
- Americans buried in the Cemetery before 1850
- The ‘Angel of Grief’ in new media
Who they were
- Lady Page-Turner, her landmark monument and her portrait by Richard Cosway (by Richard Foulkes and Nicholas Stanley-Price)
- The Von Daehns and the Russian Imperial family (by Graham Finley)
Subject, Authors, Names
Index to Authors
Index to Subjects
Index to Names
N.64
Autumn 2023
Contents
Special edition featuring Ireland. Texts by the Editor.
- Foreword by H.E. Patricia O’Brien, Ambassador of Ireland to Italy
- The Synnots and the cypress trees in 1821
Two painters and a sculptor from Ireland
- The painter James Atkins (1799-1833)
- The painter Richard Rothwell (1800-1868)
- The sculptor Henry Timbrell (1806-1849)
Francis Blake Woodward, chaplain of All Saints’ Anglican Church
Subject, Authors, Names
Index to Authors
Index to Subjects
Index to Names
N.63
Summer 2023
Contents
News from the Cemetery
- In memory of Clara Benedict (1844-1923): a plaque, a low wall and a dusty road
- A survey of the flourishing bird-life in the Cemetery (by Fauna Urbis)
Artists in the Cemetery
- German artists in the Cemetery: two unknown views from 1853 and 1873 (by Nicholas Stanley-Price)
Who they were:
- Murder in Sardinia: the tragic fate of Edmund and Vera Townley (by Nicholas Stanley-Price)
Subject, Authors, Names
Index to Authors
Index to Subjects
Index to Names
N.62
Spring 2023
Contents
Descendants celebrate the restoration of the Helene Klaveness sculpture (by Nicholas Stanley-Price)
News from the Cemetery
- Yvonne Mazurek takes over as Director
- Exhibitions held in the Garden Room in 2022
- New information on Dutch burials (by Herbert Jan Hijmersma)
- The care of trees
History continues to sell
A Welsh artist visits Testaccio in 1777 (by Nicholas Stanley-Price)
Who they were:
- Evgeny Nazarov (1919-1965), a Russian-language teacher in Rome (by Franco Maria Nardelli)
