Founded: 1930

History: The first meeting of Chapter X took place December 20, 1930, at the residence of the honorary president, Princess Poggio Sausa Ruspoli. The first president of the chapter was Marchesa Romerque Ranieri di Sorbello.

Chapter Project: The chapter is compiling the biographies of Americans buried in the Cimitero Acattolico (Non-Catholic Cemetery) in Rome between the 18th century and the present. Today the chapter is small, but active. Among the members is Flavia Accolti-Gil whose mother was an early member of the Rome Chapter and whose grandmother was a member of the Parent Chapter.

It is site of the graves of the English poets Keats and Shelley and of more than 800 Americans, many of them diplomats and creative artists, some of them travelers whose final resting place unexpectedly became Rome.

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