On the side of the Browning Palace, above the little Canal of S. Barnaba, and immediately below the windows of the poet’s bedroom, is a tablet with this inscription,
“Robert Browning died in this house 12th December, 1889.
“Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it ‘Italy.’”
This Rezzonico Palace was purchased by Mrs. Robert Barrett Browning in 1888, and here at the close of the next year the poet died. He had said to Miss Browning, not very long before, that he wished to be buried wherever he might chance to breathe his last: if in England, by the side of his mother; if in France, by the side of his father; if in Italy, by the side of his wife. Further interments having been prohibited in the English Cemetery in Florence, where lies his wife, his body was placed temporarily in the chapel of the Mortuary Island of S. Michele here. A few days later he was laid at rest in the Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey, with “Italy” graved inside his heart.
INDEX OF PERSONS
[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [J], [L], [M], [O], [P], [R], [S], [T], [W], [Z]
Addison, Joseph, [42].
Aldo II., Manuzio, [22].
Aldo, Paolo, [22].
Aldo, Pio, [20-22].
Barozzi, N., quoted, [17].
Boccaccio, [16-19].
Bollani, Bishop, quoted, [11].
Bolognese, Pietro, [19].
Brown, Horatio F., [37].
Brown, Horatio F., quoted, [19], [20-21].
Brown, Rawdon, [37-38].
Brown, Rawdon, quoted, [8], [29-30].
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, [60-61].
Browning, Robert, [59-63].
Byron, Lord, [30], [38], [47-51].
Byron, Lord, quoted, [27].
Ceresole, Victor, quoted, [44].
Châteaubriand, [57].
Cinthio, G. B., quoted, [11].
Clement, Clara Erskine, [42].
Clement, Clara Erskine, quoted, [21].
Cooper, James Fenimore, [54-55].
Dickens, Charles, [55-56].
Disraeli, Benjamin, [26-27].
D’Israeli, Isaac, [26-27].
D’Israeli, Isaac, quoted, v., [27-28].
Dudevant, Mme., [53-54].
Duse, Elenora, [9-10].
“Eliot, George,” [56-57].
Elze, Th., quoted, [6-7].
Erasmus, [23].
Evans, Mary Anne, [56-57].
Evelyn, John, [33-34].
Furness, Horace Howard, quoted, [6-7].
Gautier, Théophile, [51].
“George Eliot,” [56-57].
“George Sand,” [53-54].
Gibbon, Edward, quoted, [24].
Goethe, [45-47].
Goethe, quoted, [1], [27].
Goldoni, Carlo, [42-44].
Goldsmith, Oliver, [7].
Gregoropoulos, [21].
Hare, Augustus J. C., [42].
Hare, Augustus J. C., quoted, [10-11], [57].
Houghton, Lord, [59].
Howells, William Dean, [40-41].
Howells, William Dean, quoted, [5], [11], [19].
Hunt, Helen, [58].
James, G. P. R., [38-39].
Jameson, Anna, [56].
Landor, Walter Savage, quoted, [38-39].
Layard, Sir Henry, [39-40].
Lewes, George Henry, [56-57].
Lowell, James Russell, [58-59].
Luther, Martin, [23].
Milton, John, [32-33].
Montaigne, [31-32].
Moore, Thomas, quoted, [48], [51].
Moro, Christoforo, [7], [8], [9-10].
Musset, Alfred de, [53-54].
Oliphant, Margaret W., [42].
Oliphant, Margaret W., quoted, [29].
Petrarch, [16-20].
Polo, Marco, [13-15].
Polo, Nicolò, [14-15].
Robertson, Alexander, [41-42].
Robertson, Alexander, quoted, [22], [24].
Rogers, Samuel, [47].
Rousseau, J. J., [44-45].
Ruskin, John, [36], [37].
Ruskin, John, quoted, [1], [34-35], [60].
“Sand, George,” [53-54].
Sanudo, Marino, [28-30].
Sarpi, Paolo, [23-26].
Schuyler, Eugene, [38].
Scott, Walter, [53].
Shakspere, [4], [6-7].
Shakspere, quoted, [4], [13].
Shelley, Percy B., [52-53].
Symonds, John Addington, [37].
Tassini, Giuseppe, quoted, [8-9], [19], [30], [43].
Tasso, [30].
Wagner, Richard, [57-58].
Walpole, Horace, quoted, [42].
Warner, Charles Dudley, [41].
Woolson, Constance Fenimore, [57].
Zeno, Apostolo, [36].