The Ring and the Book (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Browning
- First Published: 1868
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Dramatic
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- Setting: Italy
- Principal Characters: Pietro Comparini, Violante, Pompilia, Guido Franceschini, Giuseppe Caponsacchi
- Genres: Short fiction, Poetry
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Marriage, Seventeenth century, Italy or Italians, Church or churches, Christmas, Trails
- Locales: Italy
The Story:
Count Guido Franceschini, descended from an ancient house of Aretine, had married Pompilia Comparini, a young and beautiful Roman woman. Unhappy with her husband, the young wife fled back to Rome in the company of a young priest, Giuseppe Caponsacchi. Guido and four accomplices followed her, and on Christmas night he found his wife at the home of her parents, Pietro and Violante. He murdered the seventy-year-old man and woman and fatally wounded seventeen-year-old Pompilia.
The aged parents were laid in the church where the people of Rome came to stare and to...
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