JONATHAN KEATES is the editor of the Everyman's Library's anthology Rome Stories and the author of several works of fiction including the short story collection Allegro Postillions and the novel The Stranger's Gallery. He is the biographer of Handel, Purcell, and Stendhal, and is well known as a reviewer and writer on Italian culture and history. He teaches at the City of London School and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
