"Asolando"--Last Days in DeVere Gardens--Letters of Browning and Tennyson--Venetian Lingerings and Friends--Mrs. Bronson's Choice Circle--Browning's Letters to Mrs. Bronson--Asolo-- "In Ruby, Emerald, Chrysopras"--Last Meeting of Browning and Story--In Palazzo Rezzonico--Last Meeting with Dr. Corson-- Honored by Westminster Abbey--A Cross of Violets--Choral Music to Mrs. Browning's Poem, "The Sleep"--"And with God Be the Rest!" 269
Robert Browning _Frontispiece_ From a drawing by Field Talfourd, Rome, 1855
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 39 From a drawing by Field Talfourd, Rome, 1855
Busts of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2
Monument to Michael Angelo, by Vasari 80 Church of Santa Croce, Florence
The Guardian Angel, Guercino 103 Church of San Agostino, Fano
Monument to Dante, by Stefano Ricci 108 Piazza di Santa Croce, Florence
Statue of Savonarola, by E. Pazzi 116 Sala dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
Fresco of Dante, by Giotto 121 The Bargello, Florence
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence (known as the Duomo) 126
The Ponte Vecchio and the Arno, Florence 142
The Clasped Hands of the Brownings 153 Cast in bronze from the model taken by Harriet Hosmer in Rome, 1853
The Campagna and Ruins of the Claudian Aqueducts, Rome 156
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Filippo Lippi 166 Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence
Andrea del Sarto. Portrait of the Artist and his Wife 170 Pitti Gallery, Florence
Equestrian Statue of Ferdinando de' Medici, by Giovanni da Bologna 174 Piazza dell' Annunziata, Florence
The Palazzo Barberini, Via Quattro Fontane, Rome 188
Kate Field 208 From the portrait by Elihu Vedder, Florence, 1860
Portrait of Robert Browning in 1882, by his Son 242
Portrait of Robert Barrett Browning, as a Child, 1859 263
Portrait of Robert Browning, by George Frederick Watts, R.A. 270
Mrs. Arthur Bronson, by Ellen Montalba, in Asolo 274
Miss Edith Bronson, (Comtessa Rucellai) 280
Portrait of Professor Hiram Corson, by J. Colin Forbes, R.A. 290
Engraved Facsimile of a letter from Robert Browning to Professor Hiram Corson 260
"Allons! after the Great Companions! and to belong to them!"
"To know the universe itself as a road--as many roads--as roads for travelling souls."
THE MOST EXQUISITE ROMANCE OF MODERN LIFE--ANCESTRY AND YOUTH OF ROBERT BROWNING--LOVE OF MUSIC--FORMATIVE INFLUENCES--THE FASCINATION OF BYRON--A HOME "CRAMMED WITH BOOKS"--THE SPELL OF SHELLEY-- "INCONDITA"--POETIC VOCATION DEFINITELY CHOSEN--"PAULINE."