When Elizabeth Barrett
Browning died at Florence in 1861, the Comune, her city
government, and also at that time, capital of Italy, placed a
plaque above the doorway of Casa Guidi, stating that she had
made of her poetry a golden ring beyween Italy and England. The
Comune also offered to raise and educate her son, Pen, as a
Citizen of Italy. Her husband, Robert Browning, instead took
twelve-year-old Pen immediately to England, and never returned
to Florence. Pen, however, did return and would later have
another plaque placed on Casa Guidi celebrating from his
mother's poem the little child singing below Casa Guidi Windows,
"Oh Bella Libertà, O Bella!". This anthology of hypertext web
guides seeks to deepen the experiences in time and space for
travellers to this city of Florence, whether in flesh and blood
or virtually. Shakespeare spoke of Sermons in Stones. Florence's
poets and artists created of her a new Jerusalem, a Vita
nova, for you. And it is particularly women who traced
that story.
1. Santa Maria Novella 2. St Zenobius' Cross 3. Baptistery 4. Duomo 5. Orsanmichele tombs 6. Misericordia 7. Bigallo 8. Santa Maria Nuova Hospital 9. Piazza San Pietro Maggiore 10.
Borgo degli Albizzi 13.
Cavalcanti 14. Piazzetta
Donati 15. Chiesa Santa
Margherita 17. Portinari 20. Bargello 21. Badia 22. Torre della Castagna 24. San Martino 25. Dante House 29. Orsanmichele 38. Ponte Vecchio 39. Piazza Santa Felicita 40. Palazzo del Popolo
Map: 1 Dante
House and Loggia dei Cerchi; 2
Mercato Vecchio and Corso dei Adimari to
3
Duomo and its Piazza; 4 Ponte
Vecchio; 5
Oltrarno, Via dei Bardi; 6 Borgo
Pinti and its Porta a' Pinti; 7
Palazzo della Signoria and its Piazza; 8 Badia
fiorentina and Corso degli Albizzi
9
Piazza Ognissanti; 10 San
Marco; 11
Santissima Annunziata; 12
Rucellai Gardens; 13
Via Valfonda; 14
Ponte Rubaconte and Piazza de' Mozzi; 15 Santa
Croce and its Piazza; 16 Borgo
and Porta La Croce; 17 Porta
San Gallo ->Trespiano; 18
Impruneta->San Gaggio->Florence; 19 San
Stefano; 20
Oltrarno, San Miniato; 21
Bargello; 22
Viareggio; 23
Oltrarno, Porta San
Frediano; 24
Ponte alla Carrara; 25 Ponte
Santa Trinità
1. Casa Guidi 2. Palazzo Pitti 3. San Miniato 4. Ponte Vecchio 5. Uffizi 6.
Palazzo Vecchio 7. Bargello
8. Santa Croce 9. Duomo 10.
Misricordia 11. Santa Maria
Novella 12. Medici Chapel 13. San Lorenzo 14. Accademia di Belle
Arti 15. Santissima
Annunziata 16.
English Cemetery 17.
Bellosguardo
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