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Updated: May 1, 2025
Browning's poems, 'Casa Guidi Windows' and 'Aurora Leigh, are steeped in Italian thought and Italian imagery. Browning's longest poem is a tale of Italian crime; his finest studies in the 'Men and Women' are portraits of Italian character of the Renaissance period. But there is more than any mere enumeration of poets and their work can set forth, in the connection between Italy and England.
They matched the carved oak and massive gildings and valuable tapestries which had carried something of Casa Guidi into his first London home.
Yet with all these distractions, perhaps in part because of them, the visit to England was not one of Browning's happiest times. The autumn weather confined Mrs Browning to her rooms. He was anxious, vexed, and worn. It was a happiness when Welbeck Street was left behind, and they were on the way by Paris to their resting-place at Casa Guidi.
The Via Maggio, which runs from Casa Guidi to the Ponte Trinita, and at noon is always full of school-girls, brings us by way of the Via Michelozzo to S. Spirito, but by continuing in it we pass a house of great interest, now No. 26, where once lived the famous Bianca Capella, that beautiful and magnetic Venetian whom some hold to have been so vile and others so much the victim of fate.
The ex-Queen had Rome searched for him the very next day by a score of her servants, and it was one of her grooms who had mistaken Cucurullo for Guidi, because he hardly knew the poet by sight, and thought that hunchbacks were all very much alike.
The true creative power is hers, not mine. * Formerly Miss Blackett, and sister of the member for New Castle. Mrs. Browning died at Casa Guidi on June 29, 1861, soon after their return to Florence.
Always remind your dear mother that we are no more bound here than when in furnished lodgings. It is a mere name. To Mrs. Martin Palazzo Guidi: June 20, . My dearest Mrs. Martin, Now I am going to answer your letter, which I all but lost, and got ever so many days beyond the right day, because you directed it to Mrs. William Browning.
But after a careful study of the data, various visits to the places where he lived in England, trips to Casa Guidi, views from Casa Guidi windows, a journey to Palazzo Rezzonico at Venice, where he died, and many a pious pilgrimage to Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey, where he sleeps, I am constrained to believe that Robert Browning was made from the same kind of clay as the rest of us.
There were assembled at that council all the cities round about, and the Conti Guidi and the Conti Alberti, and those of Santafiora and the Ubaldini; and these were all agreed that for the sake of the Ghibelline cause Florence must be destroyed, "and reduced to open villages, so that there might remain to her no renown or fame or power."
Are they going to pull the old walls down, or any part of them, I want to know? Why can't they keep the old city as a nucleus and build round and round it, as many rings of houses as they please, framing the picture as deeply as they please? Is Casa Guidi to be turned into any Public Office? I should think that its natural destination.
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