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Title: The country of The ring and the book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Treves, Frederick, Sir, 1853-1923
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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f Francis Barazzihas fallen upon humbler days, for on the ground flooran upholsterer struggles with the cab proprietor for anexistence. The Brownings first occupied this house in thewinter of 1854. Their rooms were on the third floor,and, as Mrs. Browning writes, were turned to thesun.* They were, therefore, on that corner of thehouse which is shown in the photograph, the viewhaving been taken in the winter. Apparently the lastoccasion on which the Brownings resided in Rome wasin the winter of 1859, when a letter of Mrs. Browningshows that, for at least some part of their visit, they hadtheir quarters in the same house in the Via Bocca diLeone.f The old Yellow Book came into Browningshands in June, 1860, and apparently he was never againin Rome after that date. He, therefore, had no oppor-tunity of seeking out the various spots connected with * Life of Robert Browning. By Mrs. Sutherland Orr, London, 1891,p. 197. t Life of Robert Browning. By W. Hall Griffin, London, 1910, p. 214. 112
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The Street of the Lions Mouth the story he was destined to make famous. It is curiousthat he should have chosen his home in that quarterof the city around which the drama centred, for No. 43Via Bocca di Leone was only but a few steps fromthe house where the crafty Violante lived and wherePompilia died. 3 5. THE URSULINE CONVENT THERE is in the Via Vittoria a large motherlybuilding of such ample proportions that it actuallyoverpowers the tiny street, and seems prepared togather it, together with all its houses, shops and people,under the shadow of its wings (Plate 1). This is theAccademia di S. Cecilia, once a famous Ursuline convent.It is a somewhat ostentatious house, with a doorwayworthy of a church and with heavily barred windows onthe ground floor. It has been in part modernised oflate, but with seemingly so little disturbance that theComparini, if they could once more walk the streetsof Rome, would recognise it as the Ursuline convent oftheir day. When it ceased to be an Ursuline

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