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Further Reading
Johan Beck-Friis. The Protestant Cemetery in Rome: the cemetery of artists and poets. Malmö: Allhems Förlag, 1956.
The standard brief illustrated history of the Cemetery, with a list of notable graves. Frequently reprinted with minor additions, it is available in German, Italian and English editions.

The Protestant Cemetery in Rome: the "Parte Antica", edited by Antonio Menniti Ippolito and Paolo Vian, Roma: Unione Internazionale degli Istituti di Archeologia, Storia e Storia dell'Arte in Roma, 1989.
The result of an intensive research project into the Parte Antica by the British and Swedish institutes in Rome. Most of the volume is in English, with the two main chapters on the early history of the Cemetery in Italian and German.

All'ombra della Piramide: storia e interpretazione del Cimitero acattolico di Roma, by Wolfgang Krogel, Roma: Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia storia e storia dell'arte in Roma, 1995.
The most detailed account of the development of the Cemetery in its wider historical context, drawing upon archives in Rome and a wide range of published sources.

La piramide di Caio Cestio e il cimitero acattolico del Testaccio, by Chiara Di Meo, Roma: Palombi editori, 2008.
A historical study of the Pyramid and Cemetery in the context of attitudes towards death, richly illustrated by contemporary engravings and paintings of both monuments.

Newsletter of the Friends of the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome (Newsletter) Quarterly newsletter describing how the Cemetery is cared for, and with short articles on its history and on interesting people buried there.


The titles listed above are available at the Visitors’ Centre of the Cemetery. Enquiries to: visitorcentre@cemeteryrome.it


The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome:
Management and Stone Conservation
Nicholas Stanley-Price, Heritage Consultant
Amanda Thursfield, Director, Non-Catholic Cemetery Rome (Italy)

In JARDINS DE PIERRES
Conservation de la Pierre dans les parcs, jardins et cimetières/
Conservation of stone in Parks, Gardens and Cemeteries
(eds. M. Stefanaggi et V. Vergès-Belmin)
14es journées d’étude de la SFIIC,
Paris, Institut national du patrimoine, 22-24 juin 2011, Paris 2011,
pages 64-71.
Article summarizing the current management policies of the cemetery as of 2011.

A short history of the making of the Rémillard Angel
by Douglas Stephens
This account, written specially for this website, of the making of a replica of Wm. Wetmore Story’s Angel of Grief sculpture puts into perspective what Story achieved in Rome in 1894-95.