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WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR WEBSITE:


Works

Audio Recordings of Swinburne's Epitaph on Walter Savage Landor, and Gebir I, Gebir II

  WSL's restored tomb with last verses of Swinburne's epitaph

Project Gutenberg: Gebir http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/gebir10.txt

(It is possible to both hear and read this text, by reducing the audio file while calling up the text file)

Project Gutenberg: Count Julian http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4008

Internet Archive: Andrea of Hungary and Giovanna of Naples http://www.archive.org/details/andreofhungaryan00landuoft
pdf form recommended. Explore in the Canadian Libraries Internet Archive for further WSL works

Most recommended reading: Pericles and Aspasia.


Essays

The City and the Book International Conference IV, The Family of Walter Savage Landor

Hengist Horne with the assistance of E.B. Barrett. Walter Savage Landor. A New Spirit of the Age.

Jean Field. 'Walter Savage Landor and Warwick'

JBH 'Black and Red Letter Chaucer'

JBH 'Walter Savage Landor and Rosa Madiai'

JBH 'An Old Yellow Book: The Death and Burial of Elizabeth Barrett Browning'

JBH 'Warwick in an Italian Frame'

Kate Field. 'The Last Days of Walter Savage Landor', Atlantic Monthly

Mark Roberts. The British Institute of Florence. 'L'iscrizione sulla tomba di Walter Savage Landor/ The inscription on Walter Savage Landor's Tomb'. In Italian and English

Walter Savage Landor's Tomb through Time

Allison Levy, Wheaton College. 'La vedova di Walter Savage Landor: Libri, corpi e l'incisione di memoria in Firenze/ Walter Savage Landor's Widow: Books, Bodies and Imprinting Memory in Florence'. In Italian and English

Walter Savage Landor befriended the young Augustus Hare who would later build Holmhurst St Mary out of the proceeds of his travel books with William Morris wallpaper and an Italian stone terrace. Hare also loved Italy and this website gives his guide book to Florence with his engravings for it, also obtainable in the CD 'Florence in Sepia'.

Kristin Bragadottir, The National Library, Reykjavik. 'Notti bianche d'Islanda a Firenze: William Morris e Daniel Willard Fiske/ Northern Lights in Florence: William Morris and Daniel William Fiske'. (Daniel Willard Fiske acquired Landor's Villa Gherardesca in San Domenico, Fiesole, and carefully photographed it as it was, while amassing the largest collection of Icelandic materials outside of Iceland. In Italian and English.)





Daniel Willard Fiske's magnificent library in Florence was lodged, instead, at Lungo il Mugnone, later to be willed to Cornell University where it is now.





Piero Fusi. 'A. Henry Savage Landor'. In English

Piero Fusi. 'A. Henry Savage Landor'. In Italian

Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Savage_Landor


We invite further contributions on the Savage Landor family.





The Swiss-owned 'English' Cemetery has several Savage Landor burials, Walter Savage Landor, Esmerelda Savage Landor, Walter Savage Landor II, Arnold Savagr Landor, and John Landor.

A29 §879/ WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR/ ENGLAND/ Barfucci says original slab was replaced in 1946. See also its post in Sector B. [M: A: 4.5; L: 69; P: 141; P.s.: A: 38; L: 78; P: 151.] Iscrizione sepolcrale incisa in inglese in lettere capitali, numeri arabi: IN MEMORY OF/ WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR/ BORN 30th OF JANUARY 1775/ DIED 17th OF SEPTEMBER 1864/ AND THOU HIS FLORENCE TO THY TRUST/ RECEIVE AND KEEP/ KEEP SAFE HIS DEDICATED DUST/ HIS SACRED SLEEP/ SO SHALL THY LOVERS COME FROM FAR/ MIX WITH THY NAME/ MORNING STAR WITH EVENING STAR/ HIS FAULTLESS FAME/ A.G. SWINBURNE/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Landor/ Gualtiero Savage/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 17 Settembre/ 1864/ Anni 90/ 879/Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Walter Savage Landor, l'Angleterre/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 348 Burial 19/09, Rev Pendleton/ Freeman, 223/ Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, II.244-262, notes Landor and the Garrows knew each other well from Devon days, gives Landor's letter about Kate Field's Atlantic Monthly article mentions the Alinari photograph of himself/ NDNB entry/ Belle Arti scheda/ °=Gen. Pier Lamberto Negroni Bentivoglio/ Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-. 2009. AUDIO FILES OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, GEBIR I, GEBIR II/



WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864), an aristocrat, a Republican and a rebel, left England for Florence in 1821, and arrived with a full-fledged reputation as an artist: his poems and prose attest to his great classical learning and his epigrams are forceful and moving. He was a leader of the early English Romantic movement. Restless and eccentric, also extravagant and generous, he changed residence several times in Florence. He succeeded in amusing the Florentines with his wit (when he didn't terrify them). In 1835 he bequeathed his Villa Gherardesca home to his son, Arnold (1819-1871), who is also buried here, and returned to London, only to reappear in Florence in 1858. He was a fervent supporter of the Italian cause, to which the Brownings introduced him and he raised funds for the 'Garibaldini'. Finally, turned out by his family, like a mad King Lear, he found refuge for a while with the compassionate Isa Blagden , but finished his days in squalor, in lodgings arranged for him by Robert Browning, in Via della Chiesa, under the care of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's former maid, Elizabeth Wilson . He lived to a ripe old age, all but forgotten by the younger generation, but his name, as Swinburne wrote for his tombstone, is now forever united with that of Florence, his chosen home. [See Giuliana Artom Treves, Golden Ring, pp. 38-53.] LS







Library Catalogue

Books by and about Walter Savage Landor in the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei in Florence's 'English' Cemetery. (A29) following name = catalogue number in 'English' Cemetery of their tombs.

Hengist Horne. [With the assistance of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.] A New Spirit of the Age. Essays on Charles Dickens, Lord Ashley and Southwood Smith (C3), Walter Savage Landor (A29)), Mrs Trollope (B80), William Wordsworth and Leigh Hunt, Alfred Tennyson, Harriet Martineau, E. B. Barrett (B8), Robert Browning, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Mrs Shelley, Thomas Carlyle, etc. London: Henry Frowde, 1907. JBH, 2007.

Clara Louise Dentler. Famous Americans in Florence. Includes Kate Field [Walter Savage Landor (A29)], Elizabeth Barrett Browning (B8)], Daniel Willard Fiske [Walter Savage Landor (A29)], James Lorimer Graham (E12), Joel Tanner Hart (tomb (F28), sculpture (C3,F27), Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Jackson Jarves [Libby Jarves (C5)], Henry James [Isa Blagden (B42)], Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton, Hiram Powers (B32, B101), Harriet Beecher Stowe [Elizabeth Barrett Browning(B8)], William Wetmore Story [Theodore Parker (D108), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (B8)], Bayard Taylor, Launt Thompson [James Lorimer Graham (E12)]. Firenze: Giunti, 1976. Francesco Muntoni, Firenze, 2004.

Walter Savage Landor (A29):

Walter Savage Landor. Imaginary Conversations. Introduction, Havelock Ellis. London: Walter Scott, 1886. JBH, Firenze.

Walter Savage Landor. Imaginary Conversations with Biographical and Explanatory Notes. Ed. Charles G. Crump. London: Dent, 1911. 6 vols. Jean Field, Warwick, 2007.

Walter Savage Landor. The Longer Prose Works. Ed. Charles G. Crump. London: Dent, 1911. 2 vols. Jean Field, Warwick, 2007.

Walter Savage Landor. Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams. Ed. Charles G. Crump. London: Dent, 1909. 2 vols. Jean Field, Warwick, 2007.

Jean Field. Landor: A Biography of Walter Savage Landor. Studley, Brewin Books, 2000. Jean Field, Leamington Spa, 2004. Jean Field, Leamington Spa, 2004.

Jean Field. Kings of Warwick: An Illustrated History to Mark the 450th Anniversary of the Charity of King Henry VIII and Warwck's First Charter. Studley, Brewin Books, 1995. Jean Field, Leamington Spa, 2004.

A. Henry Savage Landor. Everywhere. Translation on CD into Italian in KHETH. Two further CDs with his travel paintings. Piero Fusi, Firenze, 2005.

The Poetics of Place: Florence Imagined. Ed. Irene Marchegiani Jones, Thomas Haeussler. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2001.

Ubaldo Rogari. Inglesi a Firenze. Firenze, 2003. Ubaldo Rogari, Firenze, 2006. Walter Savage Landor (A29), Thomas Adolphus Trollope, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (E12I), Robert Browning, Isa Blagden.

Giuliana Artom Treves:

Giuliana Artom Treves. Anglo-fiorentini di cento anni fa. Firenze: Sansoni, 1953. Maurizio Bossi, Firenze, 2002.

Lilian Whiting. The Brownings: Their Life and Art. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911. Jeffrey Begeal, North Carolina, 2005.

Lilian Whiting. The Florence of Landor. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. Jeffrey Begeal, North Carolina, 2005.

Lilian Whiting. Italy: The Magic Land. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910. Jeffrey Begeal, North Carolina, 2005.

Lilian Whiting. Kate Field: A Record. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. Jeffrey Begeal, North Carolina, 2005.

Women's Writing 10 (2003). Special Issue: 'La bella Libertà: Women and the Flight to Italy'. Alison Chapman, Glasgow, 2005.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR WEBSITE: Recordings of Gebir I, Gebir II || Essay 'Walter Savage Landor' in New Spirit of the Age || Jean Field, 'Walter Savage Landor's Warwick' || 'Black and Red Letter Chaucer' || Walter Savage Landor and Rosa Madiai || Kate Field, Atlantic Montly, 'The Last Days of Walter Savage Landor' || Mark Roberts, 'The Inscription on the Grave of Walter Savage Landor' || Alison Levy, 'The Widow of Walter Savage Landor' || Kristin Bragadottir, 'William Morris and Daniel Willard Fiske' (Villa Landor) || Piero Fusi, 'A. Henry Savage Landor'.

FLORIN WEBSITE A WEBSITE ON FLORENCE © JULIA BOLTON HOLLOWAY, AUREO ANELLO ASSOCIAZIONE, 1997-2024: ACADEMIA BESSARION || MEDIEVAL: BRUNETTO LATINO, DANTE ALIGHIERI, SWEET NEW STYLE: BRUNETTO LATINO, DANTE ALIGHIERI, & GEOFFREY CHAUCER || VICTORIAN: WHITE SILENCE: FLORENCE'S 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY || ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING || WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR || FRANCES TROLLOPE || ABOLITION OF SLAVERY || FLORENCE IN SEPIA  || CITY AND BOOK CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII , VIII, IX, X || MEDIATHECA 'FIORETTA MAZZEI' || EDITRICE AUREO ANELLO CATALOGUE || UMILTA WEBSITE ||  LINGUE/LANGUAGES: ITALIANO, ENGLISH || VITA
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