Chapter XII

1888-1889

"Asolando"--Last Days in DeVere Gardens--Letters of Browning and
Tennyson--Venetian Lingerings and Friends--Mrs. Bronson's
Choice Circle--Browning's Letters to Mrs. Bronson--Asolo--
"In Ruby, Emerald, Chrysopras"--Last Meeting of Browning and
Story--In Palazzo Rezzonico--Last Meeting with Dr. Corson--
Honored by Westminster Abbey--A Cross of Violets--Choral
Music to Mrs. Browning's Poem, "The Sleep"--"And with God Be
the Rest!" 269

Index 297

ILLUSTRATIONS

_In Photogravure_

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Robert Browning _Frontispiece_
From a drawing by Field Talfourd, Rome, 1855

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 39
From a drawing by Field Talfourd, Rome, 1855

_Engravings_

Busts of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2

Monument to Michael Angelo, by Vasari 80
Church of Santa Croce, Florence

Old Monastery at Vallombrosa 98

The Guardian Angel, Guercino 103
Church of San Agostino, Fano

Monument to Dante, by Stefano Ricci 108
Piazza di Santa Croce, Florence

Palazzo Vecchio, Florence 113

Statue of Savonarola, by E. Pazzi 116
Sala dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Fresco of Dante, by Giotto 121
The Bargello, Florence

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence (known as
the Duomo) 126

The Ponte Vecchio and the Arno, Florence 142

Casa Guidi 146

The Clasped Hands of the Brownings 153
Cast in bronze from the model taken by Harriet Hosmer in
Rome, 1853

The Campagna and Ruins of the Claudian Aqueducts, Rome 156

The Coronation of the Virgin, by Filippo Lippi 166
Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence

Andrea del Sarto. Portrait of the Artist and his Wife 170
Pitti Gallery, Florence

Equestrian Statue of Ferdinando de' Medici, by Giovanni
da Bologna 174
Piazza dell' Annunziata, Florence

Villa Petraja, near Florence 178

Church of San Miniato, near Florence 182

The Palazzo Barberini, Via Quattro Fontane, Rome 188

The English Cemetery, Florence 197

Tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning 200

Kate Field 208
From the portrait by Elihu Vedder, Florence, 1860

The Pallazzo Riccardi, Florence 214

Bust of Robert Browning, by his Son 226

Portrait of Robert Browning in 1882, by his Son 242

Church of San Lorenzo, Florence 246

Portrait of Robert Barrett Browning, as a Child, 1859 263

Portrait of Robert Browning, by George Frederick Watts, R.A. 270

Mrs. Arthur Bronson, by Ellen Montalba, in Asolo 274

Miss Edith Bronson, (Comtessa Rucellai) 280

Portrait of Professor Hiram Corson, by J. Colin Forbes, R.A. 290

Palazzo Rezzonico, Venice 294

Engraved Facsimile of a letter from Robert Browning to
Professor Hiram Corson 260

THE BROWNINGS
THEIR LIFE AND ART