The living room with Elizabeth’s desk

Although she wrote mainly from a chaise longue

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May 22nd 2018
It was quite cold today with rain and thunderstorms. Three things today. First I must tell you where I went yesterday afternoon. To Casa Guidi just up the road. Where Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband Robert lived from 1847 until 1861 when she died there. A large elegantly furnished apartment, it is open three afternoons a week from 3-6pm, just ring the bell and go up in this tiny lift ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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