The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-24
BROWNINc's ITALY. BY Irelan Arch-
bald Clarke. Tho Baker & Taylor
Company, Of New York, publishers.

company Of New YORK, pu plisherS.
with quotation from Brownings
.paraeeisus,s the first chapter stand
N ig ,b under The caption cap Of The Dawn
a sketch In II Is given OF Sordello.
who, the author points out. appears
IN the drama Of Browning US the fore.
ment OF art and literature known az
the Italian "reminiscences.
lou -Four out Of the number Ct dramas e..
the writer Of "Browning's Italy" TO
cxt mplify his views OF political life
IN Italy. These fonr dramas, ls. are +, first,
ence and the date sufficiently vague to
lot the Imagination range through the
whole. OF the nfte nth century. The
Catholic revival in the south. FOLLOWED
by an alliance between the Kings of
Spain and the Pope OF Rome. is.sup
posed to bring into play the political
conditions in which Chiaplno, the hero
drama mentioned By Browning, lived
HIS day.
The author goes en- to explain that
browning makes use OF the relation
his. son Charles. in his third drama,
"King Victor and King Charles" which:
contains an episode mention q by Vol
taire ms "a terrible event without con-
Other political phases are developed
as the reader Ia Informed In "Pippa
Passes" and In Browring's poem. .'The
Italian l., England
purely scholarly aspects OF italian Gull
ture. Mics Clarke mentions g"Pietro OF
A Az y. and "Grammar,an.s Funeral"
drea del sarto." ERA Lippo Lppi."
E ,''PicIcr Ignctus'' and .sThe Bishop Or.
ders His Tomb at. st. Praxed's Church"
are quoted ~ expressive Of Bro wning''s
nitith .. toward Italian artists and their
art. Tile remaining chapter is devoted
/ to the consideration OF Italian social
life as depicted by Browning.
r he iass that his great mas,tsrpqss
from TIE soil of italian life and art.
that .'In Gondola." gives his first i'm
pressions Of Italy. and that no more
can be Imagined than is found in the
poem Two In the Campagna'' Is mem
toned by the author in her introduc-
ton.
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