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Casa Guidi Windows

By Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Casa Guidi Windows

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In 1847, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) moved with her new husband to an apartment in Florence, in the wake of perhaps the most famous literary courtship of the nineteenth century. She soon took to calling their home the Casa Guidi. From there, she observed the events of the early Risorgimento. It was at this time that she produced some of her finest work, including Aurora Leigh and Casa Guidi Windows. An impressionistic and thoroughly atypical landmark in the Romantic canon, the latter was written in two parts, separated by several years. Beginning with the memory of a singing child and a lush description of Florence's beauty, the first part explores the air of optimism that permeates both the city and the narrator. By the second, disillusionment is rife: Florence has become the scene of demonstrations and broken political promises. This reissue of the 1851 first edition includes Barrett Browning's own introduction.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
152
Release Date:
2013-01-03
Publication Date:
2012-12-03
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1108059910
ISBN13:
9781108059916
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
201 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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