Friends, Roman Catholics, and countrymen, lend me your ears….

Was the greatest writer in the English language a Catholic? A new exhibition out of Italy seems to confirm that William Shakespeare was a Catholic convert, spending his "lost years," from 1585 – 1592, in Rome.

One signature in the guest book at Rome's Venerable English College (a school for English seminarians) from 1589 reads, Gulielmus Clerkue Stratfordiensis, which means William the Clerk from Stratford. Experts believe this is the signature of the bard.

The article from the Times Online says the exhibition, called Non Angli sed Angeli, is being shown until July of next year.