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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.

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ISBN: 9781108060387
Publication date: 9th May 2013
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 152 pages
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry
Genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900