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Title: Sidelights on ROBERT BROWNING'S 'THE RING AND THE BOOK'.
Description: Amsterdam, Pronto, 1934. 1e druk. Sewed / Card covers, 24cmx16cm, Good copy /Some browning (!), Proefschrift Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Met los blad stellingen (XI: 'De werken van Dickens hebben niet die sociaalhervormende uitwerking gehad, als algemeen wordt aangenomen'). Contents: Introductory. 1). Half- Rome and the other half-Rome. 2). Tertium Quid. 3). General instructions to Books VIII and IX. 4). Dominus Hyacinthus de Angangelis. 5). Juris Doctor Johannes-Battista Bottinius. With biography. 'The Ring and the Book' is a long dramatic narrative poem of 21.000 lines written by Robert Browning (1812-1889). It was published in four installments from 1868 to 1869. The book tells the story of a murder trial in Rome in 1698, whereby an impoverished nobleman, Count Guido Franceschini, is found guilty of the murders of his young wife Pompilia Comparini and her parents, having suspected his wife was having an affair with a young cleric, Giuseppe Caponsacchi. Having been found guilty despite his protests and sentenced to death, Franceschini then appeals - unsuccessfully - to Pope Innocent XII to overturn the conviction. The poem comprises twelve books, each a dramatic monologue spoken by a different narrator involved in the case, usually giving a different account of the same events.147 + (6) pag.

Keywords: johannes-battista

Price: EUR 45.00 = appr. US$ 48.91 Seller: Festina Lente italiAntiquariaat
- Book number: 022961

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