ChapterB

Piantine con le coordinate delle tombe

                                 marrone, intervento conservativo sul ferro
                                 rosso, tombe danneggiate, intervento di ripristino
                                 azzurro, tombe, intervento di pulitura

The terrible last photographs taken in Rome show her with emaciated deathhead, despite the crinoline and curls. In 1861, the year of her death, we see a prematurely aged Corinne in front of a painted backdrop of Rome's Colosseum (Arabella II.533). She was only fifty-five, though pretending to the even younger forty-five, and having packed into those years the writing of an epic poem longer than Homer's Odyssey, marriage, and a son. In May of that year, Hans Christian Andersen visited them, commenting on how ill Elizabeth looked (Arabella II.536). Her last poem, 'North and South', was about him, for the children played with Robert his Pied Piper of Hamelyn, processing through the rooms, and listened to Andersen's Ugly Duckling. But between these two dates, 1860-1861, is also the publication of her poem, 'A Musical Instrument'. Robert felt Elizabeth's poetic gift had ended, saying to her brother George in a letter written from Asolo, 22 October, 1889, 'the publication of "Aurora Leigh" preceded by five years the death of its writer - who was never likely to produce such another work', he being her literary agent during their marriage and following her death. But one of those last disparaged works was illustrated by Frederic Leighton for the Cornhill Magazine and this poem, 'A Musical Instrument', is of interest as a meta-poem, a statement about her poetic craft and her marriage. It is also a poem in which Elizabeth takes up a theme she has often used before, drawing on her classical and Christian learning, on the 'Great God Pan'. Pan, we recall, is that chimaera, part beast, part man, related to centaurs, satyrs and fauns, EBB speaking of Flush as 'Faunus', and echoing Milton on the death of the pagan Gods in 'The Morning of Christ's Nativity', both borrowing from Plutarch's 'De oraculorum defectu', in her 'Great Pan is Dead', and the Hawthornes noting that Robert is the Faun, Donatello, of the Marble Faun. This is Frederic Lord Leighton's fine illustration from the July 1860 Cornhill Magazine:

[Interestingly, Pen's baptismal certificate in the same Swiss Evangelical Church's Register tells us that it was performed on what would be almost her death date, 28 June, 1849, she dying 29 June, 1861, when he was twelve years old.]

III. The chronological listing of burials in the Swiss-owned so-called 'English' Cemetery, compiled in 1873 from the previous records:

In all these documents Elizabeth's age is given incorrectly as '45', rather than '55'. We recall that she did not tell her husband she had visited the Battlefield of Waterloo immediately following Napoleon's defeat, though she describes a child loosed upon that same battlefield in Aurora Leigh. (The English Cemetery has fourteen participants in the Peninsula and Waterloo Battles against Napoleon, some of whom, like B98/ MAJOR FRANCIS CHARLES GREGORIE, were Elizabeth's friends.) Nor does her tomb give her birth date, only that of the year of her death, 'O+B+1861'. Her initials are given, 'E+E+B', but not her name, as if Robert penny-pinched on the payment to the stonemason, who would have charged for every letter. Another husband composed a lengthy poem at the death of his wife, F23/ CAROLINE (BENNETT) NAPIER, Sector F, and paid for each letter of it to be engraved on her tomb slab.

The Funeral Expenses
IV. Signor L. Gilli, Inspector of the Cemetery, is paid 271 paoli for the funeral of Elizabeth Barrett Browning out of which he pays the tax to the English Church of 113 paoli. Further payments are made to the English 'pasteur' of 108 paoli for conducting the service, and 10 paoli for his carriage. Yet further payments still are made for him to have crepe for his hat and gloves. But Elizabeth, clearly, from Pen's christening through her last letter to Arabella, would not have wanted to be buried by the Church of England's Rev O'Neill, but instead by the 'pasteur' of the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church, Charles Berthoud. Apart from a pauper funeral this is the lowest amount paid at this time for an adult funeral. Those of Charlotte, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorn (E44), and of Theodore Parker (D108), cost more than a 1000 paoli each. The Trollopes, nine years earlier, had paid 572 paoli for a first class funeral for their favourite maid Elizabeth Shinner (C71) .

V. Then Ferdinando Giorgi, Master Mason, is paid a total of 760 lire toscani from Signor L. Gilli for the burial of 16 persons, the first of which is #737, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's.

Normally, Ferdinando Giorgi is paid 45 Tuscan lire a burial. He gets 90 Tuscan Paoli on 26/9/61 for EBB's burial, number #737, because he had to dig two graves. Which means the Swiss Evangelical Church this time only got 68 Paoli, less than the amount of a pauper's burial, which is 110 Paoli. Then the bill came for the carriage for the coffin from Luigi Pagliai at 32 Paoli, leaving the Swiss Church with just 36 Paoli.
I puzzled over this payment for the digging of two graves. Had Robert had one dug for himself for when his time came? Had another body been found in it while digging the first? Then I found the answer to this question.

and that the head of the beautiful but not faithful Signora Mignaty was model for B32/ HIRAM POWERS ' Greek Slave about which Elizabeth wrote her powerful anti-slavery sonnet from which we take the title of this book, 'Thunders of White Silence'.

The American sculptor B32/ HIRAM POWERS, who had been present with his wife Elizabeth at Elizabeth Barrett Browning's funeral, is also buried in the English Cemetery, while Michele Gordigiani, who painted the portraits of Elizabeth and Robert and likewise that of Camille Cavour, whose death on June 6th Elizabeth so deeply mourned,

had his studio just across the street, his descendant, Francesca Gordigiani, still living there.
Robert Browning, who sculpted and who wrote poetry on the ordering of tombs, who was himself indulging in sculpture rather than poetry at the end of their marriage, accepted Frederic Leighton's offer to design Elizabeth's tomb, Count Cottrell having Francesco Giovannozzi carry it out in Browning's and Leighton's absence. Frederic Leighton had studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti and would become President of the Royal Academy. His earliest triumph had been to paint what Elizabeth had already described in Casa Guidi Windows, published in 1851, the 'Procession of Cimabue's Madonna from Borgo Allegri to Santa Maria Novella', in 1854, the huge canvas being purchased by Queen Victoria when he was all of twenty-four.

Leighton, we noted, also illustrated Elizabeth's final poem to Pan, 'A Musical Instrument', when it was published in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860 (175-179), the year before her death. Leighton likewise illustrated George Eliot's Romola, including the despicable Tito's late return home to her, which both author and artist set in the Via dei Bardi house of Elizabeth's friend, Seymour Kirkup:

Robert, who similarly often went out at night, leaving Elizabeth at home, after the initial years of marital - and sexual - bliss, immediately following the funeral, left Florence with young Pen, accompanied by B42/ ISABELLA BLAGDEN. He proceeded to write The Ring and the Book, the Aretine and Roman trial account in verse about spousal abuse and murder, as if his own confession: with Caponsacchi as if Robert being Elizabeth's rescuer from the bondage of Wimpole Street, and with Franceschini as if Robert, who as husband constantly quarrelled publicly with his wife over politics, over spiritualism, over their son, who lied to her saying the Gabinetto Vieusseux was forbidden to women, who held the purse strings of EBB's inheritances and her earnings, who lately carefully administered her laudanum, and who, as the author of Paracelsus, the inventor of laudanum, may have knowingly overdosed her, while blaming Dr Wilson for doing so. If so, it is a kind of mercy killing, for he carefully explains to everyone that she is unaware that she is dying, only that she is in a state of euphoria from the drug. She does not die hemorrhaging from the lungs with tuberculosis.

I found this photograph placed on EBB's tomb, 5/10/2011, by Jan Taylor who wrote on the back of it: 'This quest of mine started when I watched a film called The Barretts of Wimpole Street. It turned out to be a wonderful love story between two poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whereupon they eloped to Florence and lived there until Elizabeth Barrett Browning died, and was buried in Florence. Robert Browning, however, returned to London where he is buried in Poet's Corner in Wetminster Abbey. I felt saddened to hear they were buried apart, although it is an honour to be buried in Poet's Corner. I would like to give up the honour for love. I took this photograph of Robert Browning's resting place and travelled to Florence to place it on Elizabeth's grave'.

Likewise we have sought to correct the absence of her poetry on her tomb with its presence on the walls of the Gatehouse's arch, unveiled by Dr Stephen Prickett at our conference with the Gabinetto Vieusseux on the 'English' Cemetery in 2004.

In dear and grateful remembrance of CYRIL BENONI HOLMAN HUNT born in Florence Oct 27 1866 died in Bridport 25 July 1934

WHEN THOU
PASSEST THRO
THE WATERS
I WILL BE WITH THEE
AND THRO THE FLOODS
THEY SHALL NOT
OVERFLOW
THEE

IT IS
I BE NOT AFRAID

LOVE
IS STRONG AS
DEATH
MANY WATERS CANNOT
QUENCH LOVE
NEITHER CAN THE
FLOODS DROWN
IT

[Isaiah 43.2] [Matthew 14.27] [Song of Solomon 8.6-7, EBB Sonnet XXVIII]

//[sulla lapide (di epoca più tarda) posta sul basamento] FANNY/ THE WIFE OF/ W. HOLMAN HUNT/ DIED AT FLORENCE DEC 20 1866/ IN THE FIRST YEAR OF HER MARRIAGE/Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Fanny Wough Hunt, l'Angleterre/ III: 1865-1870 'Registre des Sepultures' avec detail des frais; Francs 335/ Pall Mall Gazette/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: (Wough)[Waugh]/ Holman Hunt]/ Fanny/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 20 Dicembre/ 1866/ Anni 33/ 959/ N&Q 208. Fanny Waugh Hunt, w. of Holman Hunt, 06. 20 Dec., 1866, in the first year of her marriage/ NDNB entry for Holman Hunt/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda/ Freeman, 227-230/. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
See Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' holdings, TAU]

B10/ 972/ MARY SPENCER STANHOPE/ ENGLAND
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829-1908), another of the PreRaphaelite Brethren, came to live in Florence because of his asthma, residing at Villa Nuti (Villino Strozzi) at Bellosguardo with his wife and daughter, having visited the city previously. Maquay's diary notes he fails to introduce Frederic Leighton to him. See gimeld.html#peetersoberhausen, Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei holdings, TAU

Grazia Santoni

The year following that in which the Spencer Stanhopes had cared for the Hunts' now motherless child, Cyril Benoni Hunt, they lost their own seven-year-old daughter, Mary Spencer Stanhope, and the artist father likewise sculpted her tomb. The same shape of her tomb recurs in his own tomb, sculpted by himself, at the Allori, and in the plaques in the churches commemorating him in Florence and in Yorkshire. He helped build Holy Trinity, selling a Botticelli to pay for the construction of its Gothic tower, and later frescoed the walls and ceilings of St Mark's English Church. He painted Mary, his daughter, as if she had lived to be 17, not 7, as Psyche to his Charon, a work now owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber. This is a pattern we also see with the depictions in marble by Bazzanti as if 18, and by Solomon Counis, as if 22 of Jean David Marc Gonin (C106) who had died at 15 years old. Nic Peeters and Judy Oberhausen gave a paper on this family at our third City and Book international conference in Florence, gimel.html and together we visited Bellosguardo's Villa Nutti.Then we read Elizabeth Barrett Browning's translation of Apuleius' 'Cupid and Psyche' at the Cemetery's columned cross at the celebration for the National Archeological Museum's Exhibition, 'Egyptian Motifs in the English Cemetery', our Italian actress dressed as Stanhope's Psyche, photograph above: http://piazzaledonatello.blogspot.it/2006_09_01_archive.html, apuleius.html, egyptian.html

William Holman Hunt, PreRaphaelitism and the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood, p. 104-105:
Every time I visited Oxford I heard more of the sensation Rossetti was making there. Ruskin was taking the responsibility of directing the architect Woodward, who, with his partner Deane, was engaged in building the new Museum, and it was still said that Rossetti would return to Oxford to paint some of the walls. But as the building was not yet ready, and the rooms of the Union built by the same architects were advanced to the stage at which the bare walls showed temptingly smooth and white, Rossetti had volunteered to paint upon them the story of King Arthur with no other charge but for the materials. It was in character with Rossetti's sanguine enthusiasm that he induced many undergraduates, with little or no previous training, to undertake to cover certain spaces. Hungerford Pollen, Spencer Stanhope, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, were persuaded to take part in the work, Stanhope alone having had any preliminary training. I saw my name inscribed on a fine blank panel, and nothing would have delighted me more than to have contributed my share to the decorations, but I had too many stronger claims to allow me to undertake this mural work. Some of those connected with the Council of the Union, it was reported, saw little to be grateful for in the generosity of the young decorators, and expressed themselves discourteously; perhaps it was this, coming to Rossetti's ears, that disenchanted him with his design, for he left it abruptly half-finished and returned to town, refusing all allurements of Ruskin and others to carry it further. Arthur Hughes, Val Prinsep, and some years later William Rivière, assisted by his son, took part in the work. Without previous experience of wall-painting, and disregarding the character of the pigments, the work of the group was doomed to change and perish speedily, and little of it now remains visible. Rossetti had lighted upon remarkable undergraduates of artistic though undeveloped genius, to which choice band was added Swinburne'.

Croce. Scultore: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, who sculpts his own tombstone in the Allori in the identical shape. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 2/1867. Ambito toscano. Stele scolpita con croce e incisa in lettere capitali in lingua inglese e numeri arabi sul fronte e sul tergo croce gigliata e fiore, posta su basamento in pietra serena, recinto in pietra serena. [M: A:125.5 L: 50.5 P: 19 ; P.s. A: 18. L: 46.5 P: 37.; Recinto: A: 34. L: 70.2 P: 179.4.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in lingua inglese incisa in lettere e numeri 'art nouveau': IN MEMORY/ OF MARY/ SPENCER STANHOPE/ BORN NOVR/ 9.1859. DIED/ FEBY 23.1867/ "THE LORD IS/ MY SHEPHERD/ I SHALL NOT/ WANT. HE/ MAKETH ME/ TO LIE DOWN/ IN GREEN PAS/TVRES. HE/ LEADETH ME/ BESIDE THE/ STILL WATER" [Ps. 23.1]/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Mary Spencer Stanhope, l'Angleterre/ III: 1865-1870 'Registre des Sepultures' avec detail des frais; Francs 230/ Times, 'of suppressed scarlet fever', Mary, the daughter of John Rodham and Lille Spencer Stanhope, 2nd son of John Spencer Stanhope J.P. and Lady Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke daughter of the Earl of Leicester/ Villa Nuti, Bellosguardo/ Maquay Diaries/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Spencer Stanhope/ Maria/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 23 Febbraio/ 1867/ Anni 7/ 972/ N&Q 219. Mary Spencer Stanhope, b. 9 Nov., 1859 : ob. 23 Feb., 1867/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda/ °=Alistair J. Fraser, Nic Peeters, Leslie Ann Faulkner. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

B11/ 661/ MARIA DOROTHEA JAFFRAY/ SCOTLAND
In 1821 Richard Jaffray's father, Alexander Jaffray of Kingswells, Aberdeenshire, drowns while trying to save another skater, the Gentleman's Magazine speaking of this 'act of humanity'. Her husband outlives her.

Harper's Monthly engraving

Scultore: Pietro Bazzanti. Sec. XIX, post 1/1859. Ambito toscano. Cippo in marmo, sormontato da una croce con bracci trifogliati, recinto con colonnini, uno solo dei quattro superstite, ferro mancante. Belle Arti/Europeana: Tomba entro recinto a terra con colonnine angolari poggiante su zoccolo in pietra serena e su basamento a sezione rettangolare e modanato che sostiene il corpo del monumento, rastremato verso l'alto e con aggetto modanato superiore. Coronamento a volute vegetali sulle quali si imposta un motivo a foglie d'acanto che sostiene una croce a terminazioni trilobate. Possibile intervento di pulitura. [M: A: 188.5. L: 74. P: 53 ; P.s. A: 16. L: 85. P: 64.5 R: A: 60. L: 114.5 P: 205.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in lingua inglese incisa in lettere capitali e numeri romani: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ MARIA DOROTHEA WIFE OF RICHARD JAFFRAY ESQ/ OF KINGSWELLS ABERDEENSHIRE/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT FLORENCE/ XX IANUARY MDCCCLIX/ AGED SEVENTY THREE YEARS/ PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT FEAR [I John 4.8]/ MAY WE WHO MOURN RECALL IN HOPE/ HER DYING WORDS/ THERE IS NO DANGER IN DEATH/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Maria Dorothea Jaffray, Angleterre/ I: 1852-1859 'Registre des Sèpultures avec detail des frais', Paoli 717, Pietro Bazzanti Paoli 40/ Q 341: 428 Paoli/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777, 1 N° 263 Burial 22/01, age 73 years 11 months, Rev O'Neill, 'congestion of lungs'/ Times, grandniece of the late Alexander Jaffray, Esq. of Roebuck, county Dublin, and late of Cheltenham/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Jaffray/ Maria Dorotea/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 20 Gennaio/ 1859/ Anni 74/ 661/ N&Q 220. Maria Dorothea, w. of Rich. Jaffray, Esq., of Kingswells, Aberdeenshire, ob. 20 Jan., 1859, a. 73/ Scheda, Belle Arti, 1993-1997. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

B12/ 1350/ F'DOR PAVLOVIC D'OUSSOW/ USOV/ RUSSIA
Russian husband of only 27, and supposedly of his German wife but for whom we do not have a burial record, with a beautiful angel monument that she must have erected believing she would also lie here.

Scultura di un angelo con croce. Scultore: Lorenzo Gori, L.Gori 1876-77. Sec. XIX, post 3/1876. Ambito toscano./ Angelo con croce gotica con bracci trifogliati (apice mancante), la destra dell'angelo poggiante sullo stemma di famiglia, nella sinistra regge un serto con nastri, sull'ampia manica della tunica numerose stelle, non molto sporco, recinto in marmo sormontato da elementi decorativi in ferro; intervento conservativo sul ferro Daniel Dumitresu, 2008. Possibile intervento di ripristino. [M: A: 200.7 L: 117. P: 86.7; Base in marmo I:: A: 14 L: 117. P: 86.7; Base in marmo II: A: 27.5 L: 96.5 P: 65.2; Recinto: A: 53.5 L: 310. P: 219.] [Angel holding a Cross, in one hand, and in the other hand a Ribboned Garland of Flowers, below Cross and Coat of Arms, the Russian inscription is no longer legible from restoration cleaning, but had said 'COLORO CHE MUOIONO NEL SIGNORE' [Rev. 14.13]/ Iscrizione sepolcrale sul basamento con lettere capitali in piombo: TEODORO E GUGLIELMINA D'OUSSOW/ Talalay: Usov (D'Oussow) Fedor Pavlovic, 28.5.1876, di anni 27; 'segretario di collegio', MKF; N° 1163, RC Informazioni in cirillico/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: D'Oussow/ Teodoro/ Paolo/ Russia/ Firenze/ 28 Marzo/ 1876/ Anni 55/ 1350/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

B13/ 1062/ CHARLES HOOFFSTETTER/ SVIZZERA
The Caruels and the Hooffstetters lie together in a family plot. This tomb was, it was thought, irreperably vandalized. A Roma uncle and his fourteen-year-old nephew, both illiterate, pieced it together, using its inscription's letters to match the pieces.

Tomba. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 10/1869. Ambito toscano. Intervento di ripristino Gheorge e Comitet Petrache, 2009. Recinto condiviso con le due tombe dei Caruel e la tomba di Helen Hoffstetter. [M: A: 17.5. L: 76. P: 173.] Iscrizione illeggibile/ Charles Hooffstetter/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Charles Hoffstetter, la Suisse/ 1062/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Hooffstetter/ Carlo/ Carlo/ Svizzera/ Firenze/ 4 Ottobre/ 1869/ Anni 50. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

B14/ 1372/ CAPTAIN JAMES CHUTE/ ENGLAND
This splendid tomb pays tribute to its military occupant, the details carefully observed by the sculptor to whom have probably been lent the accoutrements of her late husband by his bereaved widow. We have seen the same with the medals of A48/ SIR DAVID DUMBRECK in Sector A.

Croce posta su un sarcofago. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 11/1876. Ambito toscano. Croce posta su sarcofago in marmo scolpito con berretto rigido, spada, cintura militare, distintivi, marmo sporco, iscrizione in lingua inglese in lettere capitali scolpite in rilievo e numeri arabi, recinto con colonnini in pietra serena e catene in ferro, pietra serena erosa, intervento conservativo sul ferro Daniel Dumitrescu, anno 2008, intervento di pulitura, 05/2010. [M: A: 206. L: 173.5 P: 70.5; P.s. A: 75.5 L: 202. P: 90. Croce: A: 100 : 70.4 P: 9] Iscrizione sepolcrale in lingua inglese scolpita in rilievo in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ CAPTAIN JAMES CHUTE/ LATE OF HER MAJESTY'S 54TH REGIMENT/ WHO DIED AT FLORENCE, 24TH NOVEMBER 1876, AGED 37/ DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS BEREAVED WIDOW ELEANOR CHUTE/ HIS WAS A NOBLE NATURE, GENEROUS, KIND AND TRUE/ On regimental regalia: REGIMENT 54/ MARABOUT// REGIMENT . . ST/ NORFOLK/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23777/1 N°503, Burial 27/11, Rev Tottenham, Captain Late of HM's 54th Reg, Hotel de l'Alliance, via Montebello/ Times, 'congestion of the lungs'/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Chute/ Giacomo/ Giacomo/ / Firenze/ 24 Novembre/ 1876/ Anni 37/ 1372/ N&Q 248. Capt. James Chute, 54th Regt., ob. 24 Nov., 1876, a. 37. Erected by his widow, Eleanor Chute/ Henderson/ Scheda, Belle Arti, 1993-1997. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

B15/ 1353/ AUGUSTE DE MANNERHEIM/ SVEZIA/FINLAND
Kim Björklund notes that the Count Mannerheim's cousin, the Finnish Aurora Karamzin, had married a Demidoff. This explains why the Count is a family guest of the Prince Demidoff in San Donato's eponymous villa. He is the uncle of Marshall Gustav Mannerheim. Olga Nordenstam, also buried here, F26, is the sister of Sofia Nordenstam who married the Count's brother, Count Carl Robert Mannerheim, and thus became the step-mother of the famous Finnish Marshall and President of Finland, Baron Gustav Mannerheim (Wikipedia). For Count Mannerheim's witty drawings see http://www.hel2.fi/kaumuseo/helsinkiinframes/hakasalmi/mannerheim_1.html.

Belle Arti scheda says style of figures is Horace Greenough's, perhaps by Italian student of his, while the rest is style of Giuseppe Bondi/Figure nello stile di Horace Greenough per influenza di suoi allievi italiani, il resto nello stile di Giuseppe Bondi. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 4/1876. Ambito toscano. Marmo scolpito, due angeli nell'atto di leggere un cartiglio, intervento di pulitura sulla crosta nera, Scuola per l'Arte ed il Restauro di Palazzo Spinelli, poggiante su due basamenti, un basamento inciso in lingua francese in lettere capitali, il secondo appare ben conservato, recinto in pietra serena con quattro colonnini in origine con ferro, ora in stato di degrado. Possibile intervento di ripristino su recinto e colonnini. [M: A: 196 L: 76.5 P: 20.2; Recinto A: 75. L: 143. P: 208.] Iscrizione sepolcrale incisa in lingua francese in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: ICI REPOSE/ LE BARON AUGUSTE DE MANNERHEIM/ NE EN FINLANDE L'AN 1805/ MORT A FLORENCE A SAN DONATO VILLA DEMIDOFF/ LE 18 AVRIL 1876/ AIME ET REGRETTE/ Talalay: Finlandia 1805- San Donato, Villa Demidoff 1876, rappresentante di una nota famiglia finlandese; in Italia era stato ospite dei Demidov, N° 1353, RC Informazioni in cirillico/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Mannerheim/ Barone Augusto/ Carlo/ [pencil Finlandia (Svezia)]/ Firenze/ 19 Aprile/ 1876/ / 1353/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
See Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' holdings, TAU.

B16/ 14/ SIR GRENVILLE TEMPLE, BART/ ENGLAND
Sir Grenville Temple, 9th Baronet, was born at Stowe, Buckinghamshire. His father was Consul General to the United States, marrying Elizabeth Bowdoin, the daughter of the Governor of Massachusetts, and he in turn married an American, Elizabeth Watson, his brother taking the name Bowdoin-Temple, for which see his nieces Laura (E141), Princess Pandolfina, and Christina Bowdoin-Temple (E1) in Sector E. He married a second time without issue. His son, Sir Grenville Temple, the 10th Baronet, is present at his father's burial, and will publish Travels in in Greece and Turkey and the Mediterranean, 1843, with fine illustrations. Bowdoin College is connected with this family.

Harper's Monthly engraving

Portrait of Grenville Temple sent by Jon Temple Illustration of Tunis by Grenville Temple

The Maharaja of Travancore and his younger brother welcome Richard Temple-Grenville, relative of Grenville Temple, when governor-general of Madras, on an official visit to what is now the southern state of Kerala, 1880.

Tomba. Scultore: Pietro Bazzanti. Sec. XIX, post 2/1829. Ambito toscano. Monumento in marmo di forma quadrata e a pianta quadrata, elementi decorativi classici, tra cui una ghirlanda con nastri. Possibile intervento di pulitura. [M: A: 199. L: 122. P: 122.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in latino incisa in lettere capitali sans serif e numeri romani. GRENVILLIVS.TEMPLE/ MAG. BRIT. EQ. BARONETTVS/ VIX ANNI LXI/ OB. XVIII.FEBR./ MDCCC.XXIX./ MONVMENTVM. POSVERVNT. FILII. MORENTES/ N.XIV/
N° 14
Le vingt-deux Février, mil huit-cent-vingt-neuf, le Baronet
Grenville-     Granville-Temple, Anglais, âge de soixante ans, mort le dix-huit
Temple          Février, mil-huit-cent vingt-neuf, a reçu les honneurs de la sé-
       =pulture, dans le Cimetière de l'Eglise Evangélique, en presence
                        du Baronet Temple, fils du défunt, et de reverend Taylor. En foi
                        de quoi j'ai signé
                                                                               Auguste Colomb Pasteur~

Times, Morning Post/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Temple/ Grenville/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 18 Febbraio/ 1829/ Anni 60/ 14/ Burke's Peerage, Sir Grenville Temple, 10th Baronet, 1768-1829/ Webbs, linked families, Temples, Temple-Bowdoin, Kerrichs, Dillons/ NDNB entry for ancestor Richard Grenvile-Temple/ N&Q 245. Grenville Temple, Bart., ob. 18 Feb., 1829, a. 61. Placed by his children/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

Contemporary Photograph in the Diary of Susan Horner, 1861-1862. See entries for Horner and Zileri family members.

B79/ 330/ WILLIAM GEORGE FRANCKLIN/ ENGLAND
This child has only lived two hours. The stonemason has incorrectly chiselled his initials.

Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 2/1846. Ambito toscano. Croce in marmo orizzontale, marmo sporco, adagiata su lastra in pietra serena, iscrizione sul basamento in pietra serena, pietra serena sporca. Possibile intervento di pulitura. [M: A: 2. L: 34.5 P: 75.; P.s. A: 13. L: 49. P: 86.5.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in lingua inglese incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: WGP[Sic]WASBORN&DIEDFEB221846/ GL 23774 N° 92: William George Francklin, s of Rev William Francklin and Maria Penelope, Burial 24-02, Rev Robbins (E101); baptism, Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23774 N°111 22/02, Rev Francklin. Private baptism by father at birth, Robbins (E101) burying him/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Franklin/ Guglielmo Giorgio/ / / Firenze/ 22 Febbraio/ 1846/ Ore 2/ 330. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

B80/ 849/ FRANCES (MILTON) TROLLOPE/ ENGLAND
I noted in 'Iron Chain, Gold Ring': On 28 December 1827, the ship 'Edward' had set sail from the Port of London for the Port of New Orleans. On board were Frances Trollope, 40, Cecilia Trollope, 12, Emily Trollope, 10, Henry Trollope, 14, all English, Frances Wright, 28, American, and August Hervieu, 23, French. Frances Wright, associated with Lafayette, had invited the Trollopes to Nashoba where she had a settlement for the education of Negro slaves. Auguste Hervieu, a brilliant young artist, was the children's tutor and companion. With them also were Hester Rust and William Abbott, their servants. Often Hervieu had to sell his art to feed and house them all'. In Cincinatti she had engaged the young B32/ HIRAM POWERS to do Dante's Commedia in wax, starting his career as a sculptor. Pastore Luigi Santini wrote of her presence in Florence: 'She was the matriarch of a clan of writers; herself, two sons and two daughters-in-law. She arrived in Florence with her son Thomas Adolphus in 1843 and took up residence in Piazza Santa Croce, immediately entering into friendly relations with notables of the Court and the British community. In 1849 she moved with her son and daughter-in-law Theodosia Garrow to a little house, Villino Trollope, in Piazza Barbano (now Indipendenza). She dedicated herself to the theatre, organized Anglo-Florentine social life, and wrote prolifically, and her house became a meeting place and obligatory reference point even for such writers as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Thackeray. Her son's autobiography, What I Remember (London, 1887), is a splendid window on cosmopolitan and cultivated Florence'.

Auguste Hervieu Villino Trollope

Stele. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 10/1863. Ambito toscano. Stele in marmo incisa in lettere capitali in lingua latina e numeri arabi, marmo sporco, posta su basamento in pietra serena, recinto in pietra serena con quattro colonnini spezzati. Intervento di pulitura, Alberto Casciani/ Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 05/2010. [M: A: 162. L: 87. P: 51.; P.s. A: 20. L: 96. P: 60; R: A: 38: 198. P: 83.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in latino incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: Iscrizione sepolcrale in latino incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: FRANCESCAE TROLLOPE/ QUOD MORTALE FUIT/ HIC IACET/ . . . / MEMORIA/ NULLUM MARMOR QUAERIT/ APUD STAPLETON/ IN AGRO SOMERSET ANGLORUM/ A.D. 1780 NATA/ FLORENTIAE/ TUMULUM A.D.1863/ NACTA EST/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Françoise Veuve Trolloope, l'Angleterre, fille de Revd. Guillaume Milton, et de Marie, née Gressley, son épouse/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 337 Burial 08/10 Age 84 Rev Pendleton/ Hampshire Advertiser, Morning Post, relict of Thomas Anthony Trollope, Esq, barrister-at-law/ Maquay Diaries, EBB Letters/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Trolloape [Trollope] nata Milton/ Vedova Francesca/ Guglielmo/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 6 Ottobre/ 1863/ Anni 84/ 849/ On the Trollopes in Florence, see Giuliana Artom Treves, Golden Ring, passim/ Thomas Adolphus Trollope writes the Latin of the inscriptions for his mother, his wife, his father-in-law; Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, I & II/ N&Q Francisca Trollope, b. at Stapleton, Somt, 1780, ob. 1863. (In Latin.)/ NDNB entries for Trollopes, etc/*=Dennis Looney. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. Nulla osta. See ironchain.html, http://www-florin.ms/gimel CBV.html#Ayres, Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' holdings, TAU.

191/ JOHN BROOKE/ IRELAND
191. Brooke/ Giovanni / /Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 17 Ottobre/ 1852/ Anni 82/ 491/ John Brooke, Angleterre/ / GL23777/1 N°1780, Rev Gilbert/ SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ JOHN BROOKE OF DUBLIN/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE/ AT FLORENCE OCTOBER 22 1852 AGED 82/ [Scripture Text] A DAUGHTER'S LAST TRIBUTE/ 491/ F9E

B91/ 991/ FANNY (FISHER) BONNIN/ ENGLAND
Fanny is the wife of Henry Gousse Bonnin's son, William Wingfield Bonnin, her sister Eliza the wife of A73/ JAMES SHIELDS. The following year William Wingfield Bonnin marries Margaret Jane Pillans in Florence.

Sarcofago. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 9/1867. Ambito Toscano. Sarcofago in marmo scolpito con violette, poggiante su basamento in pietra serena, pietra serena erosa, recinto in ferro, intervento conservativo sul ferro Daniel Dumitrescu, 2008. Possibile intervento di pulitura. [M: A: 74. L: 156.5 P: 70.5; P.s. A: 35. L: 153. P: 72.; R/P.s/ferro: A: 43. L: 208. P: 113.5] [Pansies] Iscrizione sepolcrale in lingua inglese entro tabula incisa in lettere capitali e numeri romani: SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ FANNY/ FOR UPWARDS OF XXIII THE BELOVED WIFE/ OF/ WILLIAM WINGFIELD BONNIN ESQ/ OF/ BUCKINGHAM STREET STRAND LONDON/ DIED AT FLORENCE xxxi OCTOBER MDCCCLXVII/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Fanny Bonnin, née Fischer, l'Angleterre, fille de Henri Fischer/ III: 1865-1870 'Registre des Sepultures' avec detail des frais; Francs 2 393/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N°386, Rev. Pierce Connolly; Marriage GL20990 N°50, 07/08/44, William Wingfield Bonnin to Frances Fisher, BCL, Rev. Gambier, 2nd marriage of husband, GL23871 N°88/19/115 17/02/68 William Wingfield Bonnin to Margaret Jane Pillans at BE, groom widower of London, Rev. Tottenham; marriage of sister: 02/02/52 James Shields (buried, Sector A) to Eliza Fisher at HBM (Scarlett), groom goods manager on Pistoia/Prato railroad, bride place Casa Scarlett, Rev O'Neill, relations with Wingfield, Broughton, Shields (Sector A)/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: 153. Bonnin nata Fischer/ Fanny/ Enrico/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 31 Ottobre/ 1867/ Anni 48/ 991/ N&Q 225. Fanny, for 23 yrs. w. of Wm. Wingfield Bonnin, C.E., of Buckingham St., Strand, ob. 31 Oct.. 1867, a. 48/ See Digby. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

B112/ 517/ CAPTAIN ROBERT NAPIER KELLETT/ SCOTLAND
Participant at Battle of Waterloo, well-connected Scottish relatives, but immediate family suffering from tuberculosis, only the daughter, Jemima (Hunter Kellett) Melhado, inheriting all the wealth, surviving. JLMaquay, Diaries 6/11/1853 'I attended Captain Kellett's funeral.'

Lastra. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 11/1853. Ambito toscano. Lastra incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi, croce in metallo trafugata, marmo sporco, presenza di crepe, posta su basamento in pietra serena. Possibile intervento di pulitura. [M: A: 2. L: 67. P: 140.; P.s. A: 13. L: 70. P: 145; Recinto condiviso con la moglie, Jemima Kellett, si veda sopra] Iscrizione sepolcrale in lingua inglese incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT/ NAPIER KELLETT LATE CAPTAIN/ ROYAL HIGHLANDERS OF RENFREWSHIRE/ SCOTLAND, NEPHEW OF SIR RICHARD/ KELLETT BART/ DIED AT FLORENCE NOVEMBER 2ND 18[53]/ AGED 56 YEARS/ - . - / REQUIESCAT IN PACE/ - . - / 517/ PRO Army Record, aged 17 when entered army, Waterloo medal/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Robert Napier Kellett, Angleterre, Capitaine au Service de S.M. Britannique/ I: 1852-1859 'Registre des Sèpultures avec detail des frais', Paoli 815/ Q 90: 538 Paoli/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 185 Burial 11/05, Rev O'Neill/ Maquay Diaries: 6 Nov 1853/ Morning Chronicle, nephew of Sir Richard Kellett, Bart./ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Kellet/ Cap: Roberto Napier/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 2 Novembre/ 1853/ Anni 56/ 517/ +/ N&Q 203. Robert Napier Kellett, late Capt. Royal Highlanders, and nephew of Sir Rich. Kellett, Bt. , ob. Nov., 18(5)3, a. (?)/ Waterloo Committee/ °=Peter Brunning, Cambridge, see http://www.brunning47.demon.co.uk/kellett/florence.html. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. See waterloo.html

B113/ 549/ JEMIMA (HUNTER) KELLETT/ SCOTLAND
Their descendants have visited these tombs and the Waterloo Society lists them. Jemima of a Scottish father and thus with a stronger legal backing for sexual equality than from an English father nursed her son and her husband while they were dying of tuberculosis, then died herself. She thus briefly became the legal head of their family. JLMaquay, Diaries 7/9/1854 'up early to attend funeral of Mrs Napier Kellett. Father mother and son have all died within 16 months.' Her daughter, Jemima Hunter Kellett, places her magnificent tombstone with its armorial bearings: she will marry the following year the Portuguese Jew Elias Henrriques Melhado, the son of Daniel and Judith Melhado, and whose family, like the Barretts, were also in Jamaica. There is careful documentation in the Scottish archives protecting Jemima's property against Elias, nor do we find him violating those terms. Jemima Melhado died at 75 in 1908, Elias Melhado at 91 in 1918, both in the Jamaican region of London, St Marylebone. See Peter Brunning, Cambridge, http://www.brunning47.demon.co.uk/kellett/florence.html

Photo Credit/Per gentile concessione di Peter Brunning FERET AD ASTRA VIRTUS

Cippo. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 9/1854. Ambito toscano. Stele in marmo scolpita con stemma, faci rovesciate, incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi, sul tergo globo alato, poggiante su basamento in pietra serena, con recinto in marmo e ferro battuto, intervento conservativo sul ferrro Daniel Dumitrescu, 2008. [M: A: 216.L: 117.P: 50.; P.s. A: 28 L: 126. P: 58.6: Recinto: A: 91. L: 309. P: 203.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in lingua inglese incisa fra due faci rovesciate in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ JEMIMA ONLY DAUGHTER OF THE LATE/ JAMES HUNTER ESQ OF RENFREWSHIRE/ SCOTLAND, AND WIDOW OF/ THE LATE CAPTAIN NAPIER KELLETT/ DIED AT FLORENCE SEPTEMBER 5 1854/ AGED 50 YEARS/ - . - / I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE/ =SAITH THE LORD=HE THAT BELIEVETH IN=/ ME THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE/ - . - [John 11.25] / 549/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Jemmima Hunter Kellet, Iles Britaniques, Veuve de Kellet, Capitaine au service de S.M. Britanique/ Q 145: 759 Paoli/ Coat of Arms: Arms: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, argent on a mount vert, a boar passant sable (for Kellett); 2nd and 3rd, argent a cross gules, in the first quarter a fleur-de-lys of the last (for Haddock). Crest: An armed arm embowed and garnished or, holding in the hand a baton of the last. Motto: Feret ad astra virtus ('Virtue carries one to the starsˆ). Creation: Bt. (UK) 6 Aug 1801./ GL23777/1 N° 207, Burial 07/09, Rev O'Neill/ Maquay Diaries: 7 Sep 1854/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: Marriage G2077 N° 124 01/02/55 Elias Melhado to Jemima Hunter Kellett at HBM (Normanby), 2 Kelletts as witnesses, Rev O'Connor/ Glasgow Herald/ Morning Chronicle, Mrs Jemima Hunter, relict of Capt RJ apier Kellett, formerly of Her Majesty's 42nd Regiment of Foot, (at Waterloo)/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Kellet (Hunter)/ Giovanna/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 5 Settembre/ 1854/ / 549/ N&Q 204. Jemima, only d. of the late James Hunter, Esq., of Renfrewshire, and wid. of the late Capt. Napier Kellett, ob. 5 Sept., 1854, a. 50/ °=Peter Brunning, Cambridge, see peter@brunning.org.uk http://www.brunning47.demon.co.uk/peter.html /http://www.brunning47.demon.co.uk/kellett/floreg.html/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.