The Keats-Shelley House, located next to the Spanish Steps, was the last home of John Keats, who died there in 1821 at the age of twenty-five. The exterior of the building is similar to how it was when Keats arrived in Rome in a vain attempt to slow down the inevitable consequences of tuberculosis. Opened to the public in 1909, the house museum displays a large collection of sculptures, paintings, manuscripts, objects and first editions of the works of Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the most important exponents of the second generation of English Romanticism.