ROME — British Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and spoken word poet Scarlett Sabet headlined a 100-person bash celebrating 200 years since Lord Byron's death at Villa Wolkonsky, residence of the British Ambassador to Italy, last week.
British deputy ambassador Eleanor Sanders and Sir Ivor Roberts, British ambassador to Italy from 2003 to 2006, made introductory remarks.
Armitage, Sabet, and Italian actor Dimitri Patrizi read excerpts of Byron's poetry — Patrizi about Italian cities.