Fra Lippo Lippi (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Browning
- First Published: 1855
- Type of Work: Dramatic monologue
- Genres: Poetry, Dramatic monologue
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Art or artists, Beauty, Painting or painters, Sixteenth century, Catholics or Catholic Church, Italy or Italians, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism
The Poem
“Fra Lippo Lippi” is a long poem in blank verse. It is one of Robert Browning’s numerous dramatic monologues, written in phrases and segments, which assume periodic unwritten questions and responses from the listener. The speaker in this poem is a historical character, Fra Lippo Lippi, who was a monk and a painter in fifteenth century Florence. Taking his point of departure from an incident described by the Italian painter and biographer Giorgio Vasari in The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters and Sculptors (1550, 1568), Browning...
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