Kevin Spacey Reads Poetry at Museum in Rome

Kevin Spacey is returning to the arts — a couple of ’em, actually — with a pop-up performance at a Rome museum where he’s reciting some poetry … that apparently speaks to him.

The actor threw on a brown suit Friday and waltzed into Palazzo Massimo. He set up shop in front of the famous sculpture of the “Boxer at Rest” and read the Italian poem, “The Boxer.”

A crowd gathered as Kevin recited the elegant words of Italian poet Gabriele Tinti — in English, though — and it seems like his Massachusetts criminal case, and other sexual misconduct allegations, might have influenced his poetry choice.

The poem’s about a beaten and tired boxer who is determined not to give in or give up. One passage reads … “The more you’re wounded, the greater you are. And the more empty you are.”

As we first reported … Kevin scored a huge victory a couple weeks ago when prosecutors dropped the case where a then-18-year-old male accused Spacey of groping him in a Nantucket bar.

We’ve seen this kind of display from Spacey before … when the groping accusations first surfaced on Christmas Eve, he posted a bizarre video urging people not to rush to judgment, hopping into character as his old “House of Cards” character, Frank Underwood, to deliver the message.