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N.50

Spring 2020

Newsletter 50

In this issue

Contents of the newsletter

special 8-page issue
Texts written by the editor unless otherwise indicated

Who was ‘The Bride’? The story of Elsbeth Wegener Passarge

Our two other monuments by Ferdinand Seeboeck

SPOTLIGHT ON THE OLD CEMETERY

  • The printer’s son buried in 1735
  • Piranesi’s memorial to James Macdonald – an artist’s view
  • A new inventory of the (numerous) burials in the Old Cemetery
  • Two German painters drowned in the Tiber
  • Sarah Barnard, an Irish girl born in Madeira (with Sarah Hart)
  • ‘The exceptions’: burials in the Old Cemetery after its closure in 1822

OLD PHOTOS OF THE NEW CEMETERY

  • Robert Macpherson’s photo (1867) of John Gibson’s tomb
  • Marcello Piermattei’s photos preserved for posterity
  • The monument to Stefan Cezarescu, Romanian military attaché (with Anka Serbu)
  • Henrik Ibsen’s address in memory of P.A. Munch (by Christopher Prescott)
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Index to Subjects, Names, and Authors

Index to Authors:

  • Hart Sarah
  • Prescott Christopher
  • Serbu Anka
  • Stanley-Price Nicholas

Index To Subjects:

  • Artists buried in the Cemetery
  • Cemetery databases
  • Commemorations
  • Depictions of the Cemetery
  • Directors
  • Origins, history of Cemetery
  • Sculptors, monuments in the Cemetery

Index to Names:

  • Abeken Mary
  • Barnard Sarah
  • Barnard William Henry
  • Bärndorf Auguste von
  • Barth Carl
  • Baugean J.-J.
  • Bravo Johannes
  • Bunsen Charles
  • Bunsen Frances
  • Cezarescu Stefan
  • Dessoulavy Thomas
  • Farley Robert
  • Fladager Ole
  • Fohr C.P.
  • Freeman James Edward
  • Garden Mary Robertson
  • Gibson John
  • Gregorovius Ferdinand
  • Hare Augustus
  • Hosmer Harriet
  • Ibsen Henrik
  • Macbean Aeneas
  • Macdonald James
  • Macpherson Robert
  • McGuigan John F. Jr
  • Minghini L.
  • Munch Peter
  • Passarge Elsbeth Wegener
  • Piranesi Giovanni Battista
  • Ravnkilde Niels
  • Sablet Jacques
  • Seeboeck Ferdinand
  • Severn Arthur
  • Söhnhold Karl Wilhelm
  • Spence Benjamin
  • Strutt Jacob and Elizabeth
  • Telmann Konrad
  • Werpup George
  • Williams Penry
  • Woodward Francis Blake

CONTACTS

Via Caio Cestio, 6
00153 Roma
Tel. +39 06 5741900
mail@cemeteryrome.it

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Booking a group visit to the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome

The Non-Catholic Cemetery for Foreigners in Rome is one of Europe’s oldest active burial grounds and is privately operated. Its main purpose is to provide a place of repose for those buried here and to allow their continued, respectful commemoration. One of the greatest challenges we face is to ensure a contemplative atmosphere appropriate for the loved ones of those who lay to rest.

Please note the Cemetery is not offering guided tours for the time being.

In recent years, the site has become increasingly popular among visitors and now requires all groups to be accompanied by a group leader or authorized tour guide. Please book well in advance and note that groups can include a maximum of 14 visitors (i.e. a total of 15 people per group). When cemetery activities permit, we can accommodate up to two groups in the morning and up to two in the afternoon. Kindly fill in the following form and wait to receive a personalized response which will state whether or not we can accommodate your request.

In order to guarantee the right conditions for funerals and cemetery activities, groups will not be admitted into the Cemetery unless they have booked in advance and have received confirmation for their booking. Groups will not be allowed to disband into smaller clusters to visit the site on an individual basis.

We kindly request a voluntary contribution of five euros (per visitor), which may be paid on site to Cemetery staff and goes directly to offsetting the operating costs of the Cemetery.

We are unable to accept phone queries about bookings for group visits and ask group leaders/authorized tour guides to use the following form to book two to three weeks in advance. As the needs of the Cemetery are our top priority, office staff is on duty Monday through Friday and can take over a week to reply. We appreciate your patience and thank you for honoring our mission.

N.B. Space for group visits is highly limited. If you cannot make your scheduled booking, please inform us as soon as possible by contacting: mail@cemeteryrome.it. Group leaders who do not respect their appointments may be denied bookings in the future.


The group leader/tour guide confirms to have read and agreed to the following conditions (all fields are required*):

Useful Links

Other Cemeteries:

The Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe(ASCE), of which the Non-Catholic Cemetery is a member

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Italy, there is a CWGC cemetery with the graves of some of the many Commonwealth servicemen who fell in Italy located in via Zabaglia, opposite the Non-Catholic Cemetery

The Protestant Cemetery in Florence

The former English Cemetery in Naples

The Mausolea & Monuments Trust is a charitable trust for the protection and preservation of mausolea and funerary monuments situated in Great Britain and Ireland

The Fondazione Montaigne (Montaigne Foundation) administrators of the English Cemetery in Bagni di Lucca in Tuscany


Other sites of interest:

The Keats Shelley Memorial House, Rome, home and deathplace of the English Romantic poet John Keats, buried in the Cemetery

The Andersen Museum, Rome, studio and home of the Norwegian/American sculptor and painter Hendrik Christian Andersen, buried in the Cemetery

The Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, Rome, foundation set up in memory of the Italian Communist writer Antonio Gramsci, buried in the Cemetery

Casa di Goethe, home of the German writer Goethe during his stay in Rome – Goethe’s son August is buried in the Cemetery

ICCROM, The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property

Il Trattore, the co-operative responsible for garden maintenance in the Cemetery

Roma Video, click on Musei e Monumenti to see videos about the Cimitero Acattolico and its neighbouring Piramide Cestio

Wanted in Rome, a magazine for the English-speaking community in Rome

Il Labirinto, Rome-based quality in poetry, narrative, essay and art books illustrated by contemporary artists, some of which are on sale in the Cemetery Visitors Centre

The Anglican Centre in Rome building friendly and informed relations between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church

I Gatti della Piramide – the Cats of the Pyramid charity organisation that runs the cat sanctuary next to the Pyramid and whose volunteers feed and care for the cats that live in and around the Cemetery
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Thank you for your interest in the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome.

It can take several days for the office staff to respond to your query. We appreciate your patience and your understanding as we tend to the funerary needs of our community.

Please visit “Plan your visit” to orient yourselves. For more detailed information, you can visit the resources listed under “Explore“. 

We also have an FAQ you may find useful.