After moving to Italy in 1962, White wrote at a less frenetic pace than he had during the war years. He began an American lecture tour, however, in which he delivered a very Merlyn-like talk on "The Pleasures of Learning" and another on Hadrian, the Roman Emperor who constructed a famous wall of defense in England. White died of heart failure on a Mediterranean cruise on January 17, 1964; he was buried in Athens near Hadrian's Arch. 1965 saw the publication of America at Last: The American Journal of White, which recounted his American lecture tour.
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