In 1847, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) moved with her new
husband to an apartment in Florence, in the wake of perhaps the
most famous literary courtship of the nineteenth century. She soon
took to calling their home the Casa Guidi. From there, she observed
the events of the early Risorgimento. It was at this time that she
produced some of her finest work, including Aurora Leigh and Casa
Guidi Windows. An impressionistic and thoroughly atypical landmark
in the Romantic canon, the latter was written in two parts,
separated by several years. Beginning with the memory of a singing
child and a lush description of Florence's beauty, the first part
explores the air of optimism that permeates both the city and the
narrator. By the second, disillusionment is rife: Florence has
become the scene of demonstrations and broken political promises.
This reissue of the 1851 first edition includes Barrett Browning's
own introduction.
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