Rome- The Keats-Shelley house will host a reading by the Scottish author and historian William Dalrymple on June 26 at 4:00pm. He will read from The Last Mughal: the Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857, a critically acclaimed book recounting the sad tale of Bahadur Shah II, who also wrote poetry under the pen name of Zafar.

Dalrymple was educated at Ampleforth and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was first History Exhibitioner and then Senior History Scholar. In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for five years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. Dalrymple is currently working on The Return of a King: Shah Shuja, the Great Game and the First Battle for Afghanistan, to be published within the next month.

Call 06 678 4235 or email info@keats-shelley-house to reserve your seat. The Keats-Shelley House is located at Piazza di Spagna, 26.

The museum's normal entrance fee applies. Refreshments to be served after the reading.