Casa Guidi
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Location | Piazza San Felice 8, Florence, Italy |
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Website | The Landmark Trust – Holiday at Casa Guidi |
Casa Guidi is a writer's house museum in the 15th-century patrician house in Piazza San Felice, 8, near the south end of the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy. The piano nobile apartment was inhabited by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning between 1847 and Mrs Browning's death in 1861. Their only child, Robert Barrett Browning (known as Pen), was born there in 1849.
Casa Guidi was the subject of her 1851 poem "Casa Guidi Windows".
The Browning household was a centre of British society in Florence although it was said that Theodosia Trollope's house was more care free. There was no animosity, however, and the Trollope's daughter played with the Browning's son Robert, known as Pen.[1] After Pen's death in 1912 the apartment was bought by several Browning enthusiasts. By that time, Casa Guidi was in poor shape, and the apartment retained hardly any furniture or paintings. The Browning Society in New York restored it, before giving it to Eton College which undertook further work so that the building could be used as a study centre. Today, it is part of The Eton College Collections, but is administered by the Landmark Trust, who also look after the apartment above the one where John Keats died in Rome. When not being used by Eton boys, the property is available for holiday lets booked through the Landmark Trust.[2]
Casa Guidi is open to the public for 3:00–6:00 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from April to November. There is no admission fee, but donations are welcome.
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- Casa Guidi information from Eton College
- Museums in Florence – Casa Guidi
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- "Sebastian, or, Virtue Rewarded" (c. 1815, unpublished)
- The Battle of Marathon: A Poem (1820)
- "Sabbath Morning at Sea" (1839)
- "A Child Asleep" (1840)
- Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
- Aurora Leigh (1856)
- Robert Browning (husband)
- Robert Barrett Browning (son)
- Casa Guidi
- Armstrong Browning Library, collections and papers
- Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1853 sculpture)
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street
- 1934 film
- 1957 film
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography (1988)
- Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2021)
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