The Smiles of Rome by Susan Cahill

Author:Susan Cahill [Cahill, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-77836-9
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

ROBERT BROWNING

1812–1889

“Open my heart and on it see / Graved inside it, Italy!” It was after his second encounter with the country where he felt most at home that Browning began corresponding with Elizabeth Barrett. After their elopement, they moved to Italy in 1846, and stayed until Elizabeth’s death in 1861. Florence was their main residence, but they made long trips to Rome, their house in the neighborhood near the Spanish Steps favored by the English community of artists and Grand Tourists, at the intersection of the lovely Via Bocca di Leone and Vicolo del Lupo. Rome provided Browning with a rich source of material for his dramatic monologues—“The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church,” “My Last Duchess,” and “Porphyria’s Lover”—about the corruption and evil he saw in the lives of Renaissance nobles and churchmen. At first, his most enthusiastic readers were Americans, who were attracted to his unchurched vigorous Protestantism and who used his poems as cultural Baedekers. American travel agencies used them to advertise steamship voyages to Europe. Ezra Pound considered Browning the greatest writer of Victorian English and the ancestor of modern poetry.

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