The “South Bank Show” has been a long-running answer, indeed rebuke, to the hoary old question about the relative merits of John Keats and Bob Dylan.

It does so by pointing out affinities between Austen and a writer with whom she has not commonly been associated, John Keats.

In one of Rome's "better kept secrets" as the travel guides like to refer to the third-floor apartment where John Keats spent the final months of his life.