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Henry Adams. The Degradation of  the Democratic Dogma. Privately Printed for the Members of the Classics of Liberty Library, 1997. Arizona State University/Mesa Public Library, 2004.

Henry Adams. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985. Caroline Carpenter, 2005.

Henry Adams. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. London: Constable, 1904. Lisa Morelli Adimari, Firenze, 2010.

David S. Brown. The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams. New York; Scribner, 2020. 2021.

Henry Adams' sister. Her death from tetanus in Bagni di Lucca is described in the 'Chaos' chapter of his autobiography The Education of Henry Adams:

  He had been some weeks in London when he received a telegram from his brother-in-law at the Bagni di Lucca telling him that his sister had been thrown from a cab and injured, and that he had better come on. He started that night, and reached the Bagni di Lucca on the second day. Tetanus had already set in.
  The last lesson,—the sum and term of education,—began then. He had passed through thirty years of rather varied experience without having once felt the shell of custom broken. He had never seen nature,—only her surface,—the sugar-coating that she shows to youth. Flung suddenly in his face, with the harsh brutality of chance, the terror of the blow stayed by him thenceforth for life, until repetition made it more than the will could struggle with; more than he could call on himself to bear. He found his sister, a woman of forty, as gay and brilliant in the terrors of lock-jaw as she had been in the careless fun of 1859, lying in bed in consequence of a miserable cab-accident that had bruised her foot. Hour by hour the muscles grew rigid, while the mind remained bright, until after ten days of fiendish torture she died in convulsion.
  One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplaces of religion and poetry which seemed to deaden one’s senses and veil the horror. Society being immortal, could put on immortality at will. Adams being mortal, felt only the mortality. Death took features altogether new to him, in these rich and sensuous surroundings. Nature enjoyed it, played with it, the horror added to her charm, she liked the torture, and smothered her victim with caresses. Never had one seen her so winning. The hot Italian summer brooded outside, over the market-place and the picturesque peasants, and, in the singular color of the Tuscan atmosphere, the hills and vineyards of the Apennines seemed bursting with mid-summer blood. The sick-room itself glowed with the Italian joy of life; friends filled it; no harsh northern lights pierced the soft shadows; even the dying woman shared the sense of the Italian summer, the soft, velvet air, the humor, the courage, the sensual fulness of Nature and man. She faced death, as women mostly do, bravely and even gaily, racked slowly to unconsciousness, but yielding only to violence, as a soldier sabred in battle. For many thousands of years, on these hills and plains, Nature had gone on sabring men and women with the same air of sensual pleasure.
 Impressions like these are not reasoned or catalogued in the mind; they are felt as part of violent emotion; and the mind that feels them is a different one from that which reasons; it is thought of a different power and a different person. The first serious consciousness of Nature’s gesture,—her attitude towards life,—took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, an insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect. Society became fantastic, a vision of pantomime with a mechanical motion; and its so-called thought merged in the mere sense of life, and pleasure in the sense. The usual anodynes of social medicine became evident artifice. Stoicism was perhaps the best; religion was the most human; but the idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort. God might be, as the Church said, a Substance, but He could not be a Person.
  With nerves strained for the first time beyond their power of tension, he slowly travelled northwards with his friends, and stopped for a few days at Ouchy to recover his balance in a new world; for the fantastic mystery of coincidences had made the world, which he thought real, mimic and reproduce the distorted nightmare of his personal horror. He did not yet know it, and he was twenty years in finding it out; but he had need of all the beauty of the Lake below and of the Alps above, to restore the finite to its place. For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was,—a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces,—and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the illusions of his senses, the white purity of its snows, the splendor of its light, and the infinity of its heavenly peace. Nature was kind; Lake Geneva was beautiful beyond itself, and the Alps put on charms real as terrors; but man became chaotic, and before the illusions of Nature were wholly restored, the illusions of Europe suddenly vanished, leaving a new world to learn.
  On July 4, all Europe had been in peace; on July 14, Europe was in full chaos of war. One felt helpless and ignorant, but one might have been king or kaiser without feeling stronger to deal with the chaos. Mr. Gladstone was as much astounded as Adams; the Emperor Napoleon was nearly as stupefied as either, and Bismarck: himself hardly knew how he did it. As education, the outbreak of the war was wholly lost on a man dealing with death hand-to-hand, who could not throw it aside to look at it across the Rhine. Only when he got up to Paris, he began to feel the approach of catastrophe. Providence set up no affiches to announce the tragedy. Under one’s eyes France cut herself adrift, and floated off, on an unknown stream, towards a less known ocean. Standing on the curb of the Boulevard, one could see as much as though one stood by the side of the Emperor or in command of an army corps. The effect was lurid. The public seemed to look on the war, as it had looked on the wars of Louis XIV and Francis I, as a branch of decorative art. The French, like true artists, always regarded war as one of the fine arts. Louis XIV practiced it; Napoleon I perfected it; and Napoleon III had till then pursued it in the same spirit with singular success. In Paris, in July, 1870, the war was brought out like an opera of Meyerbeer. One felt one’s self a supernumerary hired to fill the scene. Every evening at the theatre the comedy was interrupted by order, and one stood up by order, to join in singing the Marseillaise to order.

It was senseless, too, that Louise Kuhn's tomb seemed to be lost. Then it was discovered leaning, abandoned after an attempted robbery for its marble, against a wall so that its inscription was hidden. Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu and Nicolae Ovrei, under the direction of Alberto Casciani, next reconstructed it in its original place, known from the description a hundred years ago in Notes and Queries, moving the great octagonal base a great distance using the same methods as had Renaissance stone masons when raising the Obelisk at St Peters, with ropes and pulleys, no internal combustion engines, and then the damaged drum, into position, following having constructed a firm base in cement. Following this received funding to reconstruct the marble cross to replace the original one which was stolen, and for restoring the damaged surfaces of the drum.

      

    

When Henry Adams' wife, Clover Adams, committed suicide from drinking photographic developing fluid, Henry had her magnificent tomb sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, now conserved in the Smithsonian Museum, alongside of sculptures by Hiram Powers, Edmonia Lewis and William Wetmore Story:

            
                                          Gaudens' Clover Adams         Edmonia Lewis' Cleopatra     William Wetmore Story's Libyan Sibyl

   

 

Martin Garrett. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. London: The British Library, 2001. Writers' Lives. Pearl Spedding, Bath, 2011.

Paracelsus [Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim].: Selected Writings. Ed. Jolande Jacobi. Princeton: University Press, 1973. Bollingen Series XXVIII. JBH, Princeton.

David Loth. The Browning: A Victorian Idyll. New York: Brentano's, 1929. Lisa Morelli Adimari, Firenze, 2010.

Mary Sanders Pollock. Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: A Creative Partnership. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Mary Sanders Pollock.

Annie Thackeray Ritchie. 'Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning'. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 84 (1892), 832-855. Charles F. Gould, Portland, OR, 2006.

Their Letters:

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1898. Vol. II, of 2 vols. JBH.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1845-1846 with Portraits and Facsimiles. 2 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. Copyright Sir Edward A. Altham. Mary Rose Sullivan, Woburn, MA, 2008.

The Library seeks a copy of Vol. I. of the Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett.

The Brownings' Correspondence, 1809-1845. Ed. Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson. Winfield, KS: Wedgestone Press, 1984-1992. Vols. 1-10. JBH.

Elizabeth B. Barrett, Robert Browning. D'amore e di poesia: Lettere scelte 1845-1846. A cura di Ilaria Rizzato. Milano: Archinto, 2007.

Letters of the Brownings to George Barrett. Ed. Paul Landis, Ronald E. Freeman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958. JRGB/JBH.

Biographies:

Daniel Karlin. The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. Oxford: University Press, 1988. JBH.1990, Pearl Spedding, Bath, 2010.

Julia Markus. Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. London: Bloomsbury, 1995. Bruna Dell'Agnese, Milano, 2002.

Joanna Richardson. The Brownings: A Biography Compiled from Contemporary Sources. London: Folio Society, 1986. JBH.

Welcome to Casa Guidi/ Benvenuti a Casa Guidi. Brochure. JBH.

Edward C. McAleer. The Brownings of Casa Guidi. New York: Browning Institute, 1979. Edward McAleer, Casa Guidi. 2 copies. JBH.

Michael Meredith. Meeting the Brownings. Waco: Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, 1986. 2 copies. JBH.

The Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Brochure. JBH.

The Browning Collections: A Reconstruction with other Memorabilia: The Library, First Works, Presentation Volumes, Manuscripts, Likenesses, Works of Art, Household and Personal Effects, and other Association items of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Ed. Philip Kelley and Betty A. Coley. Sotheby Catalogue of Estate of R.W. Barrett Browning, Esq., of Asolo, Veneto, and La Torre all'Antella, near Florence, Italy. Waco: Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University/ Winfield, KS: Wedgestone Press, 1984. JBH.

See Lilian Whiting.

Maisie Ward. The Tragi-Comedy of Pen Browning (1849-1912). New York: Sheed and Ward, Browning Institute, 1972.

Virginia Woold. Flush: A Bography. London: Hogarth Press, 1933. Endpapers by Vanessa Bell. First Edition. Exhibition Case.

Virginia Woolf. Flush. Biografia di un cane. Traduzione di Alessandro Scalero. Milano: Baldini, Castoldo, Dalai, 2008.

The Boston Browning Society. Organized 1885. 1993-1994, 1995-1996, 2005-2006, 2006-2007. Dr. Charles C. Dickinson III and JoAnne W. Dicksinon, Esq, Boston, 2007.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (E12I):

Works:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Complete Works. Ed. Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1900. Reprint, AMS Press. 6 vols. JBH.

Mrs Browning. The Complete Poetical Works. Ed. Harriet Waters Preston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Cambridge Edition. JRGB/JBH

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Poetical Works. London: Oxford University Press, 1920. Lisa Morelli Adimari, Firenze, 2010.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A Selection from the Poetry. Editied, Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder, 1889. Hand-written note on end papers copying out Trollope, What I Remember, on EBB. Leask Ward, London, 2010.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A Selection from the Poetry. Editied, Robert Browning. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1872. Christina Huehmer, Roma, 2006.

The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. With a Memoir by Mrs David Ogilvy. London: Frederick Warne, 1890s.

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth B. Browning, with Portrait and Illustrations. London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, n.d. Series II [AL in Series I?] Stephen Wilkinson, Florence, 2005.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Complete Poetical Works. Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books, 1993. Rebecca Cole-Turner, Pittsburg, 2003.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh and Other Poems. Ed. John Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton Holloway. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995. See also VAU.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh and Other Poems. Ed. Cora Kaplan. London: Women's Press, 1978. JBH.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh and Other Poems. Aurora Leigh, A Drama of Exile, the Seraphim, Prometheus Bound. Illustrated. Frederick C. Gordon. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1892. JBH.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 'Le finestre di Casa Guidi (Casa Guidi Windows, A Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)'. In Scritti inglesi della politica contemporanea. Firenze: Tipografica italiana, 1851. Pp. 237-277. Part I. Part II would have been censored by the returned Grand Duke and the Austrians. JBH, Firenze, 2011.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Casa Guidi Windows. Ed. Julia Markus. New York: The Browning Institute. 1977. JBH.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Casa Guidi Windows. London: Collins, n.d. Leask Ward, London, 2009. An exquisite edition.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. "The Cry of the Children". Trad. Bruna Dell'Agnese. In Testo a Fronte 24 (2001), 127-139. Bruna Dell'Agnese.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Lady Geraldine's Courtship. Illustrated, Charles Pears. London: T.C. and E.C.Jack, n.d. JBH. Exhibition Case.

Aurora Leigh:

See Aurora Leigh microfilms: Harvard Manuscript; Princeton First English Edition Corrected for First American Edition, shelved: KHETH

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh. London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. Frontispiece, engraved portrait. Syracuse University, Florence, 2005. Exhibition Case.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh. Ed. Charlotte Porter and Helen  A. Clarke. London: George Bell and Sons, 1902. JBH.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh. Ed. Margaret Reynolds. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992. JBH.
'L'avventura della traduzione': Bruna Dell'Agnese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, Giovanna Bemporad, Omero, Odissea, venerdì, 1 ottobre 2004. Firenze: Fondazione il Fiore, 2004. JBH.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh: romanzo in versi. Trad. Bruna Dell'Agnese. Firenze: Le Lettere, 2002. Italiano. Bruna Dell'Agnese.

*Review in Poesia 173. ADA, Firenze, 2003.

*Fondazione il Fiore. "L'avventura della traduzione": Bruna Dell'Agnese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh; Giovanna Bemporad, Omero, Odissea. Venerdì, 1 ottobre 2004. JBH.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Selected Poems. York Notes. Harlow: Pearson, 1999.

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Sonnets from the Portuguese:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese. Introduction and Notes, Catherine Porter and Helen A. Clarke. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1933. Charles Gould, Portland, OR, 2012.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese. Illustrated, Fred A. Mayer. New York: Crown Publisher, n.d. JBH.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese. Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, n.d. Ursula Ditchburn, Scotland, 2006.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems. New York: Dover, 1992. Ann Paule, Paris, 2007.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems. New York: St Martin's Press, 1986. Pearl Spedman, Bath, 2008.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonetos Portugeuses. Trans. Manuel Corrêa de Barros. Lisboa: Relogio d'Agua, 1945. Anna Vicente, Lisboa, 2003. For Sonnet II read from this edition by Rodrigo Araes Caldas Farias Portugues2.mp3

Elisabeth Barrett Browning. Sonnets: Sonnets from the Portuguese. Traduits de l'anglais par Alliette Aura. Paris: Editions Correa, 1945. Eric Sanniez, Amiens, 2009.

Elizabeth Browning. Sonnets portugais. Trad. Lauraine Jungelson. Paris: Gallimard, 1994. French/English. Eric Sanniez, Amiens, 2006.

Elizabeth Barrettova-Browningova. Sonnets from the Portuguese/ Portugalske sonety. Trans. Hanna Zantovska. Bratislava: Nestor, 2001. English//Czech. Hanna Zantovska, Praga.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Portugal Szonettek. Trans. Kardos Laszlo. Budapest: Magyar Helkon, 1976. Alexandra Piuttye and Mate Gyurus, Budapest, 2010.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonetti dal Portoghese. Ed. Rina Sara Virgilito. Firenze: Libreria delle donne, 2005. Libreria delle donne, Firenze, 2006.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonetti dal portoghese. Trad. Bruna Dell'Agnese. Montebelluna: Amadeus, 1991. English//italiano. Bruna Dell'Agnese.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. Sonnette aus dem Portugiesischen. Trans. Rainer Maria Rilke. Nachwort, Elisabeth Kiderlen. Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1991. English//Deutsch. Claudia Vitale, Firenze, 2004.

Elizabeth Barret-Browning. Sonnette aus dem Portugiesischen. Trans. Rainer Maria Rilke. Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1991. English//Deutsch. Antonio Berni, Firenze, 2016.

We do not have the Sonnets from the Portuguese in Polish but Ewa Rajewska, Institute of Polish Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, kindly sent us this sample:

Letters:

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Ed. Frederic G. Kenyon. New York: Macmillan Company, 1899. 2 copies. JBH.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to her Sister Arabella. Ed. Scott Lewis. 2 vols. Waco: Wedgestone Press, 2002.
Michael Meredith, Eton College, 2006.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters to Mrs David Ogilvy. With Recollections by Mrs David Ogilvy. Ed. Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley. New York: Browning Institute, 1973. JBH.

Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: The Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford. Ed. Betty Miller. London: John Murray, 1954. JRGB/JBH.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford 1836-1854. Ed. Meredith B. Raymond and Mary Rose Sullivan. 3 vols. Waco: Armstrong Browning Library, 1983. Mary Rose Sullivan, Woburn, MA, 2008.

Katerine Gaja. "Scrivendo nel marmo: lettere inedite tra Elizabeth Barrett Browning e Hiram Powers". Antologia Vieusseux Nuova serie IX, 25-26 (2003), 31-65. Katerine Gaja, Firenze, 2004.

In 1860, posing with her son Penini, she could still smile.

The terrible last photographs taken in Rome show her with emaciated deathhead, despite the crinoline and curls. In 1861, the year of her death, we see a prematurely aged Corinne in front of a painted backdrop of Rome's Colosseum (Arabella II.533). She was only fifty-five, though pretending to the even younger forty-five, and having packed into those years the writing of an epic poem longer than Homer's Odyssey, marriage, and a son. In May of that year, Hans Christian Andersen visited them, commenting on how ill Elizabeth looked (Arabella II.536). Her last poem, 'North and South', was about him, for the children played with Robert his Pied Piper of Hamelyn, processing through the rooms, and listened to Andersen's Ugly Duckling. But between these two dates, 1860-1861, is also the publication of her poem, 'A Musical Instrument'. Robert felt Elizabeth's poetic gift had ended, saying to her brother George in a letter written from Asolo, 22 October, 1889, 'the publication of "Aurora Leigh" preceded by five years the death of its writer - who was never likely to produce such another work', he being her literary agent during their marriage and following her death. But one of those last disparaged works was illustrated by Frederic Leighton for the Cornhill Magazine and this poem, 'A Musical Instrument', is of interest as a meta-poem, a statement about her poetic craft and her marriage. It is also a poem in which Elizabeth takes up a theme she has often used before, drawing on her classical and Christian learning, on the 'Great God Pan'. Pan, we recall, is that chimaera, part beast, part man, related to centaurs, satyrs and fauns, EBB speaking of Flush as 'Faunus', and echoing Milton on the death of the pagan Gods in 'The Morning of Christ's Nativity', both borrowing from Plutarch's 'De oraculorum defectu', in her 'Great Pan is Dead', and the Hawthornes noting that Robert is the Faun, Donatello, of the Marble Faun. This is Frederic Lord Leighton's fine illustration from the July 1860 Cornhill Magazine:

And this is Elizabeth's poem, "A Musical Instrument" that it illustrates:

WhiteSilence      

What was he doing, the great god Pan,
  Down in the reeds by the river?
Spreading ruin and scattering ban,
Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,
And breaking the golden lilies afloat
  With the dragon-fly on the river.

He tore out a reed, the great god Pan,
  From the deep cool bed of the river:
The limpid water turbidly ran,
And the broken lilies a-dying lay,
And the dragon-fly had fled away,
  Ere he brought it out from the river.

High on the shore sat the great god Pan
  While turbidly flowed the river;
And hacked and hewed as a great god can,
With his hard bleak steel at the patient reed,
Till there was not a sign of the leaf indeed
  To prove it fresh from the river.

He cut it short, did the great god Pan,
  (How tall it stood in the river!)
Then drew the pith, like the heart of man
Steadily from the outside ring,
And notched the poor dry empty thing
  In holes, as he sat by the river.

. . . 

Yet half a beast is the great god Pan,
  To laugh as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man:
The true gods sigh for the cost and pain, -
For the reed which grows nevermore again
  As a reed with the reeds in the river.

WhiteSilence

one from Mrs Browning which is of the highest interest.
. . .
'Dearest Isa, - Very gentle my critic is; I am glad I got him out of you. But tell dear Mr Trollope he is wrong nevertheless
. . . There is an inward reflection and refraction of the heats of life . . . doubling pains and pleasures, doubling therefore the motives (passions) of life. I have said something of this in Aurora Leigh. Also there is a passion for essential truth (as apprehended) and a necessity for speaking it out at all risks, inconvenient to personal peace. Add to this and much else the loss of the sweet unconscious cool privacy among the 'reeds' . . . which I care so much for - the loss of the privilege of being glad or sorry, ill or well, without a 'notice.' . . . Yes! and be sure, Isa, that the 'true gods sigh' and have reason to sigh, for the cost and pain of it; sigh only . . . don't haggle over the cost; don't grudge a crazia, but . . . sigh, sigh . . . while they pay honestly. . . .
But he is a beast up to the waist; yes, Mr Trollope, a beast. He is not a true god.
And I am neither god nor beast, if you please - only a
                                                                                                             Ba

                                                                                        Florence, June 29th, 1861

I am sick, sick at heart, for dear Mrs. Browning is dead. The news was as sudden as it is dreadful, for though she has been quite ill for a week past, yet her health has always been so feeble that I firmly believed she would rally as of yore. . .  Yesterday Mrs. Browning said that she felt better, read a little in the "Athenaeum" and saw Miss Blagden as late as eight o'clock in the evening, who left her with but little misgiving. This morning, at half-past four, she expired unconsciously to herself with the words, "It is beautiful," upon her lips. Poor Mr. Browning was entirely unprepared for the terrible blow. When she raised herself to pronounce her dying words wherein she expressed the glorious life which was opening upon her, he thought it was simply a movement premonitory to coughing. I have not seen him, but Miss Blagden, who is constantly with him, says he is completely prostrated with grief. The poor boy wanders about the house, sad, and disconsolate, hardly realising that his angel mother is no more. We went to the house the moment we heard of Mrs. Browning's death, but could be of no use. All that we did was to buy flowers and consecrate them by placing them around all that is left of one who was too pure to remain longer in this world. They have cut off all her hair, and the emaciated form was heart-rending to look upon. I almost regret that I have seen her in death, only that I do not wish to shun the house of mourning.  . . . I cannot help perceiving that Dr. Wilson, who was called in owing to the absence of Gresanowsky, and who is most forbidding in physiognomy and is said by some to be a humbug, has hastened Mrs. Browning's death by resorting to a violent practice which her weak body was thoroughly incapable of enduring. He began by frightening her, telling her what a fearful state her entire system was in, - a fine way to treat an imaginative person. Gresanowsky knew her constitution, and it does seem most unfortunate that he should have been absent. Since the medical murder of Cavour, I have begun to distrust all doctors in Italy. . . . (Whiting, 134-137)

                                                                                                       Florence, July 1, 1861

I have been completely upset for the last three days, - the death of Mrs. Browning has unfitted me for doing anything. We have just returned from her funeral. We have seen all that is mortal of her buried in the beautiful Protestant burial-ground outside of Florence's walls, . . . The service was according to the Episcopal form. No discourse. Her life had been a sermon; she needed no other. It was agonizing to look on Mr. Browning - he seemed as though he could hardly stand, and his face expressed the most terrible grief. The poor boy stood beside him with tears in his eyes, and when I glanced from them to the pall where their loved one's remains lay, it seemed as though the sorrow was too much to bear. I yearned to go to Mr. Browning and weep with him that wept. The scene was made impressive in spite of the ministery; it was very short, and we were hurried away by Mr. Trollope. A lovely wreath of white flowers and a laurel wreath were placed upon the coffin. The funeral was managed by a friend of the Brownings, and so managed that no one knew anything about anything. Orders were given to the greatest confusion during the three days, and up to this morning I was told that no ladies were to be at the grave. However, Mr. Browning expressed a wish that Miss Blagden (B42) should be present and all other friends that desired to; therefore at the last moment I sent word to those whom I knew would wish to attend, and in this way there were sorrowing women to mourn for a great woman. The funeral would have been meagre without them. I thought that Mr. Landor (A29) ought to have been there, and had I known that the service would have been so short would have gone for him. The Storys (D108) came up from Leghorn; young Lytton, Mr. Trollope, the Powers (B32), and others paid their last tribute to her memory (Whiting, 137-138).

I.

II. The duplicate volume of the above:

[Interestingly, Pen's baptismal certificate in the same Swiss Evangelical Church's Register tells us that it was performed on what would be almost her death date, 28 June, 1849, she dying 29 June, 1861, when he was twelve years old.]

III. The chronological listing of burials in the Swiss-owned so-called 'English' Cemetery, compiled in 1873 from the previous records:

The Alphabetical Register, compiled in 1877 from the previous records:

In all these documents Elizabeth's age is given incorrectly as '45', rather than '55'. We recall that she did not tell her husband she had visited the Battlefield of Waterloo immediately following Napoleon's defeat, though she describes a child loosed upon that same battlefield in Aurora Leigh. (The English Cemetery has fourteen participants in the Peninsula and Waterloo Battles against Napoleon, some of whom, like B98/ MAJOR FRANCIS CHARLES GREGORIE, were Elizabeth's friends.) Nor does her tomb give her birth date, only that of the year of her death, 'O+B+1861'. Her initials are given, 'E+E+B', but not her name, as if Robert penny-pinched on the payment to the stonemason, who would have charged for every letter. Another husband composed a lengthy poem at the death of his wife, F23/ CAROLINE (BENNETT) NAPIER, Sector F, and paid for each letter of it to be engraved on her tomb slab.

The Funeral Expenses
IV. Signor L. Gilli, Inspector of the Cemetery, is paid 271 paoli for the funeral of Elizabeth Barrett Browning out of which he pays the tax to the English Church of 113 paoli. Further payments are made to the English 'pasteur' of 108 paoli for conducting the service, and 10 paoli for his carriage. Yet further payments still are made for him to have crepe for his hat and gloves. But Elizabeth, clearly, from Pen's christening through her last letter to Arabella, would not have wanted to be buried by the Church of England's Rev O'Neill, but instead by the 'pasteur' of the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church, Charles Berthoud. Apart from a pauper funeral this is the lowest amount paid at this time for an adult funeral. Those of Charlotte, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorn (E44), and of Theodore Parker (D108), cost more than a 1000 paoli each. The Trollopes, nine years earlier, had paid 572 paoli for a first class funeral for their favourite maid Elizabeth Shinner (C71) . 

V. Then Ferdinando Giorgi, Master Mason, is paid a total of 760 lire toscani from Signor L. Gilli for the burial of 16 persons, the first of which is #737, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's.

Normally, Ferdinando Giorgi is paid 45 Tuscan lire a burial. He gets 90 Tuscan Paoli on 26/9/61 for EBB's burial, number #737, because he had to dig two graves. Which means the Swiss Evangelical Church this time only got 68 Paoli, less than the amount of a pauper's burial, which is 110 Paoli. Then the bill came for the carriage for the coffin from Luigi Pagliai at 32 Paoli, leaving the Swiss Church with just 36 Paoli.
I puzzled over this payment for the digging of two graves. Had Robert had one dug for himself for when his time came? Had another body been found in it while digging the first? Then I found the answer to this question.

. . . Isa, may I ask you one favour? Will you, whenever these dreadful preliminaries, the provisional removement, etc., when they are proceeded with - will you do -- all you can - suggest every regard to decency and proper feeling of the persons concerned? I have a horror of that man of the graveyard [Ferdinand Giorgi], and needless publicity and exposure - I rely on you, dearest friend of ours, to at least lend us your influence when the time shall come - a word may be invaluable. If there is any show made, or gratification of strangers' curiosity, far better that I had left the turf untouched. These things occur through sheer thoughtlessess, carelessness, not anything worse, but the effect is irreparable. I won't think of it - now - at least . . . (Orr, 395-396; McAleer, 175, dates this letter as of 19 September 1863, as from Ste Marie, Pornic, however, the receipt clearly indicates the revised burial, the twice-digging of graves, was carried out almost immediately in 1861).

We recall that two of the Mignaty children, E131/ DEMETRIO FREDERICK MIGNATY and E130/ ELENA MIGNATY, are buried in the English Cemetery, Demetrio's inscription in Greek,

and that the head of the beautiful but not faithful Signora Mignaty was model for B32/ HIRAM POWERS ' Greek Slave about which Elizabeth wrote her powerful anti-slavery sonnet from which we take the title of this book, 'Thunders of White Silence'.

The American sculptor B32/ HIRAM POWERS, who had been present with his wife Elizabeth at Elizabeth Barrett Browning's funeral, is also buried in the English Cemetery, while Michele Gordigiani, who painted the portraits of Elizabeth and Robert and likewise that of Camille Cavour, whose death on June 6th  Elizabeth so deeply mourned,

1858

had his studio just across the street, his descendant, Francesca Gordigiani, still living there.
Robert Browning, who sculpted and who wrote poetry on the ordering of tombs, who was himself indulging in sculpture rather than poetry at the end of their marriage, accepted Frederic Leighton's offer to design Elizabeth's tomb, Count Cottrell having Francesco Giovannozzi carry it out in Browning's and Leighton's absence. Frederic Leighton had studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti and would become President of the Royal Academy. His earliest triumph had been to paint what Elizabeth had already described in Casa Guidi Windows, published in 1851, the 'Procession of Cimabue's Madonna from Borgo Allegri to Santa Maria Novella', in 1854, the huge canvas being purchased by Queen Victoria when he was all of twenty-four.

Frederic Leighton, Cimabue's Madonna

Frederic Leighton, Self Portrait, Uffizi

Leighton, we noted, also illustrated Elizabeth's final poem to Pan, 'A Musical Instrument', when it was published in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860 (175-179), the year before her death. Leighton likewise illustrated George Eliot's Romola, including the despicable Tito's late return home to her, which both author and artist set in the Via dei Bardi house of Elizabeth's friend, Seymour Kirkup:

Robert, who similarly often went out at night, leaving Elizabeth at home, after the initial years of marital - and sexual - bliss, immediately following the funeral, left Florence with young Pen, accompanied by B42/ ISABELLA BLAGDEN. He proceeded to write The Ring and the Book, the Aretine and Roman trial account in verse about spousal abuse and murder, as if his own confession: with Caponsacchi as if Robert being Elizabeth's rescuer from the bondage of Wimpole Street, and with Franceschini as if Robert, who as husband constantly quarrelled publicly with his wife over politics, over spiritualism, over their son, who lied to her saying the Gabinetto Vieusseux was forbidden to women, who held the purse strings of EBB's inheritances and her earnings, who lately carefully administered her laudanum, and who, as the author of Paracelsus, the inventor of laudanum, may have knowingly overdosed her, while blaming Dr Wilson for doing so. If so, it is a kind of mercy killing, for he carefully explains to everyone that she is unaware that she is dying, only that she is in a state of euphoria from the drug. She does not die hemorrhaging from the lungs with tuberculosis.

Leighton Sketch Book XXXV, Royal Academy Library

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Greek Lyre                   Christian Harp           Hebrew Harp
Pan                               Cross                         Jubilee with Broken Slave Shackle

Mrs Browning's monument has not yet been erected, but will shortly be so. Leighton, who was intrusted by Mr. Browning with the design, was exceedingly and very reasonably angry on coming here in the autumn to superintend the erection of the monument, to find that the sculptor had most unwarrantably changed divers parts of the design. Some of these departures from his plan Leighton insisted on having restored, and this has led to considerable delay. And I should fear that the monument, when it is put up, will not be wholly satisfactory to Mr. Browning or Mr. Leighton (Whiting, 157).

I feel very grateful indeed for your letter, and all the kindness it is replete with. For the monument, I am simply rejoiced that you like it. You know it was just what I was able to accomplish in that direction, and no more: I meant, - that had it been of pure gold it would have gone no farther in the way of being a fit offering, - and on the other hand, if my circumstances had only allowed me to put up a wooden cross, that would have sufficed. But I was fortunate in the sympathy of Leighton, and so, I hope, have been able perhaps to manage that the little which is done, is on the whole well done. I could not be on the spot and care for the execution personally - and mistakes were made at first which have been rectified since: but, by the photographs, I judge that Leighton's work is adequately rendered, - and we must be content.

You will certainly have wondered at the delay in replying to your kind letter: it was occasioned by the necessity of consulting with Leighton about the proper course to take in a matter which concerned him so much. I am deeply obliged to you for informing me about what I might else have long remained in ignorance; and the particulars of the damage, as well as the estimates of needful repair & expenditure are just what I should have desired. I wish every fit measure to be taken, and leave the whole in your most capable hands: but there is this difficulty, - Leighton is very averse to the destruction of his design by the substitution of black marble: he would prefer the renewal of the old work, even if one needs to begin again in another eleven years. Cannot this be managed? I wish it were as easy to replace the coarse nature of the relic-mongers by some more human and decent stuff, but that is impossible. Would a more effectual railing be any use? or would a cover, such as you mention as being made for the Demidoff monument, answer the purpose here? You have such an advantage over me who never saw the Tomb, that I accept your judgment, whatever it may be. Leighton said he would prefer letting the ornaments quite go, in process of time, and then renewing them - that is, prefer this to substituting the black stripe.

I have determined at last that the central medallion shall be appropriated, not to a Portrait, but to an ideal head of 'Poetry': a portrait proves to be impossible, - one, that is, which we would accept: there is nothing to be done but submit to a necessity - for any playing with the truth there would be hateful to me (185-186),

I found this photograph placed on EBB's tomb, 5/10/2011, by Jan Taylor who wrote on the back of it: 'This quest of mine started when I watched a film called The Barretts of Wimpole Street. It turned out to be a wonderful love story between two poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whereupon they eloped to Florence and lived there until Elizabeth Barrett Browning died, and was buried in Florence. Robert Browning, however, returned to London where he is buried in Poet's Corner in Wetminster Abbey. I felt saddened to hear they were buried apart, although it is an honour to be buried in Poet's Corner. I would like to give up the honour for love. I took this photograph of Robert Browning's resting place and travelled to Florence to place it on Elizabeth's grave'.

We find indeed that Leighton had intended a more true portrait on the tomb as he originally conceived it, these drawings being supplied by the Leighton House Museum from those in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Leighton even shows a togaed Robert approaching it, remembing the scene where Romney and Aurora in Aurora Leigh speak of the tomb at the Appian Way, 'Siste, Viator!')

WhiteSilence

Likewise we have sought to correct the absence of her poetry on her tomb with its presence on the walls of the Gatehouse's arch, unveiled by Dr Stephen Prickett at our conference with the Gabinetto Vieusseux on the 'English' Cemetery in 2004.

Sarcofago. Disegno: Frederic Lord Leighton; Scultore Francesco Giovanozzi; Firma: FRANCESCO GIOVANNOZZI FECE. [sarcofago in marmo e elementi decorativi in piombo su disegno di Lord Leighton eseguito da Francesco Giovannozzi, firma in basso a sinistra. Del fratello, Luigi Giovannozzi (1791-1870), è la tomba della Duchessa d'Albany in Santa Croce]. Sec. XIX, post 1864. Ambito toscano. Sarcofago scolpito con cammeo a simbolo della Poesia, arpe, lira greca (con il Dio Pan bifronte del Giardino Torrigiani), arpa ebrea con catena spezzata, arpa cristiana; intagliato con gigli e fiori delle Isole britanniche, rosa, trifoglio, giunchiglie, rami d'ulivo; sarcofago retto da sei colonne con gigli su disegno di Lord Leighton. Ultimo intervento di restauro, Meridiana Restauri, 2006, recinto in ferro, intervento conservativo sul ferro Daniel Dumitrescu, 2008. Per i disegni preparatori conservati alla Royal Academy Library, ecc., si veda ebbdeath.html [M: A: 105. L 191.2: P: 118.5; P.s. A: 37. L: 212. P: 114.6  Recinto A: 72. Totale: A: 204. L: 191.2. P: 118.5 ] Iscrizione sepolcrale in lettere capitali e numeri arabi in piombo: E.B.B./ OB.1861./ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Elisabeth Barrett Browning, l'Angleterre, agé de 45 ans/ Q 459: 271 Paoli, including English Church's tax of 113 Paoli/ Q 479: 90 Paoli paid to Ferdinando Giorgi, Master Mason for digging two graves for EBB/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N°293 Burial 01/07 Rev O'Neill, 'bronchitis'/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: 79. Barrett Browning/ Elisabetta/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 29 Giugno/ 1861/ Anni 45 [incorrect, 55]/ 737/ N&Q 207. E. B. B., ob. 1861. No other inscription/ Freeman, 236-23/ NDNB article/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda/ Henderson/ Webbs: heart attack, morphine poisoning?/ Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzer, 1827-preent. Nulla osta.

      Harper's Monthly engraving of EBB's tomb

AUDIO FILES OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, LADY GERALDINE'S COURTSHIP; SONNETS AND BALLAD, 1. 'HIRAM POWERS' GREEK SLAVE, SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE, 2, 3, 4, 5. THE RUNAWAY SLAVE AT PILGRIM'S POINT; IN PORTUGUESE, SONETOS PORTUGUESES II ; CASA GUIDI WINDOWS I, CASA GUIDI WINDOWS II; AURORA LEIGH, ALI,ALII,ALIII,ALIV,ALV,ALVI,ALVII,ALVIII,ALIX; EBB ON FLORENCE, 1. PREFACE, 2. CASA GUIDI WINDOWS, 3. AURORA LEIGH & POLITICAL POEMS to accompany Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Florence, Map of Florence/

22Q/ D106/ 670/ EDUARD BOSSE/ LETTONIA/RUSSIA
Son to D107/ ERNST GOTTHILF BOSSE, brother to D109/ ELISE BOSSE. Likewise an artist, he worked in the Uffizi copying paintings.

 

Tomba. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 4/1859. Ambito toscano. Tomba in marmo e pietra serena, marmo scolpito con profilo curvilineo, lettere in rilievo. Possibile intervento di consolidamento sul basamento. Intervento di pulitura, Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 2013. [M: A: 47; L: 68; P: 136; P.s. A: 82; L: 90; P: 171.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in tedesco incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi a rilievo: EDUARD BOSSE/ GEB[oren] IN RIGA DEN 6 FEBRUAR 1810/ GEST[orben] IN FLORENZ DEN 3 APRIL 1859/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Edouard Bossé, l'Empire Russe (Provinces Baltiques), fils de Ernest Gotthelf Bossé, et de Milhelmina Bossé, née Danemark/ I: 1852-1859 'Registre des Sèpultures avec detail des ', Paoli 460/ Q 354: 195 Paoli/ Talalay: artista, ha lavorato agli Uffizi come copista/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: 164. Bossé/ Eduardo/ Ernesto/ Russia/ Firenze/ 3 Aprile/ 1859/ Anni 49/  670/ °=Bernd Erhardt. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. 
Боссе Эдвард Эрнестович, Рига 6.2.1810 — Флоренция 3.4.1859, № 670, D22Q.

D21Q/ D107/ 812/ ERNST GOTTHILF BOSSE/ LETTONIA/RUSSIA
Father to Eduard Bosse (D107), he gave up being a merchant to become a painter of portraits and a copyist of Old Masters in Latvia, St Petersburg, Rome and Florence, where he was a Professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

 

Tomba. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 12/1862. Ambito toscano. Tomba in marmo e pietra serena, marmo con profilo curvilineo, marmo scolpito, lettere in rilievo. Possibile intervento di consolidamento sul basamento. Intervento di pulitura, Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 2013. [M: A: 46; L: 69; P: 136; P.s. A: 82; L: 90; P: 171.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in tedesco in rilievo in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: GEB[oren] IN RIGA DEN 20 AUGUST 1785/ GEST[orben] IN FLORENZ 27 DECEMBR 1862/ ERNST G[otthilf] BOSSE/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Ernst Gotthilf Bossé, Riga en Livonie, professeur, fils de Pierre Joachim Gotthilf Bossé, et de . . . ,  née Ebel/ Talalay: N° 812, RC, al Cimitero agli Allori é sepolto  la sua moglie Wilhelmina Sophia Bosse, Riga 12-11-1787- Firenze 27.9.1884/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Bossé/ Ernesto Gotthilf/ Giovacchino/ Russia/ Firenze/ 27 Dicembre/ 1862/ Anni 77/ 812/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda/ °=Bernd Erhardt. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. 
Боссе Эрнест Готлибович, Рига 20.8.1785 — Флоренция 27.11.1862, № 812, D22Q [художник]

D20Q/ D109/ 1409/ ELISE BOSSE/ LATVIA/LETTONA/ RUSSIA
She is the last burial in the Swiss-owned so-called 'English' Cemetery. Her father is D107/ ERNST GOTTHILF BOSSE, her brother, D106/ EDUARD BOSSE, buried here, while her mother is buried in the Allori Cemetery when she dies in 1884. The family of artists came from Riga in Latvia, where there is a fine portrait of his wife, her mother, by Ernst Gotthilf Bosse.

   

Tomba. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 9/1877. Ambito toscano. Tomba in marmo e pietra serena, marmo scolpito con profilo curvilineo, lettere a rilievo. Intervento di restauro, consolidamento e pulitura sul marmo e di consolidamento sul basamento, Daniel.Claudiud Dumitrescu, 2014. [M: A: 46; L: 69; P: 136; P.s. A: 82; L: 90; P: 171.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in tedesco in lettere capitali e numeri arabi a rilievo: ELISE BOSSE/ GEB[oren] IN RIGA DEN 28 JULI 1822/ GEBST[orben] IN FLORENZ DEN 24 SEPT 1877/ Talalay: N° 1409, RC/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: 165. Bossé/ Elisa/ Ernesto/ Germania/ Firenze/ 24 Settembre/ 1877/ Anni 55/ 1409. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. 
Боссе (Bosse) Элиза Эрнестовна, Рига 6.2.1810 — Флоренция 24.9.1877, № 1409, D22Q. 

E11O/ E54/ (143) 970/ JOHN LOGAN CAMPBELL/ SCOTLAND/NEW ZEALAND
This baby's Scottish father settled first in Australia, then in New Zealand, and was knighted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logan_Campbell We have carefully restored the badly damaged tomb.

          
John Logan Campbell                 Mayor of Auckland

Tomba. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 1/1867. Ambito toscano. Marmo degradato, improprio utilizzo di acido muriatico nel passato. 

F6P/ F67/ 837/ EMMA (GAMGEE) CAPEI/ ENGLAND
The Italian husband, Lorenzo Capei, a medical doctor, and his four remaining children, mourn the death following childbirth with twins of his wife, the daughter of a veterinarian from Essex who had lived in Naples and Livorno. Her brother, Joseph Samson Gamgee, was an outstanding English medical doctor. Following education on the Continent he too became interested in veterinary surgery and wrote several papers, the first when he was 16. He then began medical studies at University College Hospital in London. For a period he shared lodgings with Joseph Lister (1827-1912), later Baron Lister of Lyme Regis, the founder of antiseptic surgery. While he studied medicine, he became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1854, subsequently a Fellow of the College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. He worked at the Royal Free Hospital. Being multi-lingual, Gamgee travelled widely throughout Europe for further studies in Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Florence and Pavia. In Paris he became a friend of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) and worked at the University of Paris. Gamgee worked for a period as a surgeon at University College Hospital, and then tended the wounded from the Crimean War (1853-1856) at the Anglo-Italian Hospital in Malta. (See also A48/ SIR DAVID DUMBRECK.) Most of Gamgee's professional life was spent in Birmingham. He came there in 1857 and was elected to the medical staff of The Queen's Hospital, founded in 1841. Here he performed a successful amputation of a man's leg at the hip joint. He was noted for washing his hand before as well as after performing surgery. Gamgee was interested in all hospital matters and is remembered for his great efforts to improve hospital conditions, and occasioned the building of a new hospital wing. Gamgee had a great knowledge of literature and was a busy and elegant writer as well as an outstanding speaker and hard-working surgeon. Emma's babies, at least, survive her. Webbs, Anglo-Florentines, p. 273, note that her father had returned to England by the time of this childbirth. Webbs, Anglo-Florentines, pp. 467-468.

     Harper's Monthly engraving

Urna su stele. Scultore: Mattei/Bazzanti? Sec. XIX, post 7/1863. Ambito toscano. Urna su stele di marmo scolpito con medaglioni con clessidre alate, torci capavolti, e due vasi di marmo.  [A: 36; L: 16. [M: A:  251.5; L: 77; P: 77; P.s. A: 36; L: 85.5; P: 85.5; R: A: 13; L: 113.5; P: 176.5.] Iscrizione sepolcrale incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: DISTINTA CHE FU IN SUA MODESTA LUCE/ PER VENUSTA DI FORME/ E PIU/ PER INGENUITA D'ANIMO/ TEMPERATO AD ELEVATI PRINCIPII/ QUI RIPOSA NEI SONNO ESTREMO/ EMMA DI GIUSEPPE E MARIANNA GAMGE/ CHE AFFRANTA DA LABORIOSO GEMINO PARTO/ NEL DI 15 LUGLIO 1868/ IN ETA DI ANNI 29 MESI 3 GIORNI 13/ LASCIO DISE/ NEI QUATTRO SUOI FIGLI NEL CONSORTE DOTT. LORENZO CAPEI/ E IN QUANTI LA CONOBBERO/ MEMORIA NON PERITURA/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Emma Cappei née Gamgée, l'Angleterre, fille de Joseph Gamgée et de Marianne/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N°329, Rev Pendleton/ Obituary, The Standard/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Capei nata Gamgee/ Emma/ Giuseppe/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 15 Luglio/ 1863/ Anni 28/ 837/ See Gamgee/ NDNB entry on father, Joseph Sampson Gamgee/  Indagine Cognoscitiva, Preparatoria al Restauro delle opere site nel Cimitero Protestante di Firenze detto 'degli Inglesi', Gianguido Fumelli, Adriano Giachi, Stefano Landi, Antonella Malavolti, Sabrina Milani, 1991, 79/ Belle Arti scheda, 1993-1997/ Henderson/ Descendants=dott. Lorenzo Capei, Firenze, Dr David Boddington, Hereford, Caroline Redfern.

An Italian portrait miniature of her husband, George Chichester, is held by the National Trust at Arlington Court, Devon. He served with the 59th Regiment sent to Colombo, 1818, later taking part in the seige of Bhurtpoor. Their eight-month-old daughter had died the previous year and she dies in turn, suddenly, suspiciously, at Livorno. JLMaquay, Diaries 15/7/1840 goes to Leghorn following the sudden death of Mrs Chichester who died on 14th curious accounts from the servant, it was settled during the day by White that should go down to see about it' Maquay waits for the arrival of her husband from Naples and returns to Florence on 20/7. 22/7/1840 attends Mrs Chicheter's funeral 'quite private.' Her tomb is elegant with lacrimals, classical vases for tears, and placed in the area originally used for burying infants, in this case over the child who predeceased her. A further indication of the family's taste is the exquisite Blake watercolour they owned, still at Arlington Court. The Webbs note the following families are connected: Chichester, Whyte, Moyser, Baldelli, Fleetwood Wilson, Walker, Riddell.

        
George Chichester       Arlington Court, Devon

Sarcofago e colonne con urne lacrimali. Scultore, Pietro Bazzanti/ Signature: P.BAZZANTI.F. Sec. XIX, post 7/1840. Ambito toscano. Monumento con sarcofago fra due colonne scanalate surmontate di lacrimali scolpito con lampade e inciso su un basamento di pietra serena, pulito in parte di Palazzo Spinelli, una lastra al fronte per la bambina, ora illegibile, in un recinto di pietra serena con colonne scanalate, una volta con ferro. [M: A: 193.5, L: 186, P: 49; P.s. A: 205, L: 188, P: 49; RP.s.: A: 70.5; L: 230.5; P: 212.] Iscrizione sepolcrale inglese incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: BENEATH ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF/ MARIA WIFE OF CAPT GEORGE CHICHESTER/ OF ARLINGTON DEVON/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT LEGHORN ON JULY 14 1840 AGED 24/ CUSTOM PRESCRIBES A MONUMENT AND WHATSOEVER/ IS DECOROUS BECOMES THEE AND SHOULD BE, ELSE MEMORY WILL NEED NO ARTIFICIAL AID FOR AS WIFE MOTHER OR A FRIEND THOU LIVEST IN ALL OUR HEARTS AND SHALL LIVE STILL/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23774 N° 8: "died suddenly at Leghorn", Burial 22/07, Rev. Tennant (F49)/ Maquay Diaries: 15 Jul 1840, 20 Jul., 22 Jul. Consults with Chichester's brother-in-law, Edward Marcus Whyte/ Obituary, Morning Post/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Chichester/ Firenze/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 23 Ottobre/ 1839/ Mesi 8/ 187/ Chichester/ Madama [Maria]/ / Inghilterra/ Livorno/ 20 Luglio/ 1840/ / 204/ Henderson/ Descendant=Arthur Waddle. FLORENCE SUSAN CHICHESTER/ ENGLAND/ GL 23773/4 N° 78: d of Capt Chichester, born 03/02/39, baptized 14/03/39, Rev Tennant (F49); Burial 23-10, Rev. Tennant (F49). Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

She married, unhappily, Domenico Comparetti, the great Catholic medievalist. Mikhail Talalay notes that she was a feminist and educator, daughter of the banker Lev Anisimovic Rafalovic, her mother a Polyakov, and that Samojlovna, the wife of her uncle Rafalovic Ljubov', is buried in the Allori Cemetery. Bibl.: Storia di Elena, a cura di E. Frontali Montali, Torino, La Rosa, 1980; M.A. Manacorda, 'La breve illusione pedagogica di Elena Comparetti' in L'educazione delle donne: Scuola e modello di vita femminile nell'Italia dell'800, a cura di S. Soldoni, Milano, Angeli, 1989. She is of the family of Don Lorenzo Milani Comparetti, likewise an educator.

     

Lastra. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XX, post 1918. Ambito toscano. Lastra in marmo, con lettere romane in ottone [M: A: 18; L: 60; P: 80.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in italiano in lettere capitali e numeri arabi in piombo: ELENA COMPARETTI/ RAFFALOVICH/ ODESSA 1842/ FIRENZE 1918/ [Comparetti/ Elena/ /Italia/ Firenze/ 29 Novembre/ 1918/ / 760 Later Hand]/ [Wife to prof. Domenico Comparetti] Talalay: Odessa 1842-1918; femminista, pedagoga, figlia del banchiere Lev Anisimovic Rafalovic e di Elena Jakovlevna Poljakova, moglie del filologo pisano Domenico Comparetti; nel Cimitero 'Agli Allori' si trova la tomba della moglie dello zio Rafalovic Ljubov' Samojlovna/1825-1883, HII11/ °=Valeria Milani Comparetti. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
Компаретти, урожд. Рафалович, Елена Львовна, Одесса 1842 — Флоренция 1918, D28L [педагог].

Robert Davidsohn (1853-1937) Uno spirito libero tra cronaca e storia. Atti della Giornata di Studio. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore. 3 vols. Biblioteca dell'"Archivium Romanticum" 309. Leo S. Olschki Editore, Firenze, 2007.

Robert Davidsohn (1853-1937) Uno spirito libero tra cronaca e storia. Atti della Giornata di Studio. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore. Extract from vol I. Biblioteca dell'"Archivium Romanticum" 309. Leo S. Olschki Editore, Firenze, 2007. Steffi Roettgen, Firenze, 2007.

Steffi Roettgen. 'Dal "Borsen-Courier" di Berlino al "Genio" di Firenze. Lo storico Robert Davidsohn e il suo lascito fiorentino'. Extract: Wissenschaft, Kunst und Forschungspolitik um 1900. Die Grundung des kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenze. Hg. von Max Seidel, Venedig 1999. Steffi Roettgen, Firenze, 2007.

 

D27N/ D47/ 523/ JACQUES AUGUSTIN GALIFFE/ SVIZZERA
We thought that three tomb bases from which the marble slabs have long gone in Sector A, at A57-59 (sono probabilmente tre i membri della famiglia Galiffe che riposano in queste tombe, lastra in marmo mancante. Lastra. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 12/1853. Ambito toscano. Basamento privo della lastra. [P.s.: A: 12; L: 82; P: 160.]) were for three members of the Galiffe family, but other clues suggest they were buried instead in Sector D, at D47, which are tombs that we had thought were for the Pellew husband and wife. Pastor Luigi Santini wrote concerning Jacques Galiffe, that this 'Genevan historian and genealogist [in the style of Sismondi, his contemporary], lived and engaged in trade for a time in Holland, Germany and Russia, but returned to Geneva during the Napoleonic period to share in the troubles of his city. Turning to history he was in a sense the first Genevan historian to make use of documentary and archivistic sources with scientific intent. The results of his historic research, however, stripped of artifice and adulation, made him the centre of such controversy and hostility that in the end he preferred to emigrate to Florence. Italy owes to him the first systematic study of the Italian religious exiles of the sixteenth century. His daughter Sophie (1825-1841) and his second wife, Amélie Franço Pictet (1790-1872), daughter of the Charles Pictet who was the Swiss delegate at the Congress of Vienna, are also buried in the cemetery'. On the Web we find, in English, the following account: 'Jaques (James) Augustin Galiffe, (son of Barthelemy Galiffe and Marie Naville, and brother of Colonel Jean-Pierre, No XII as above) born on 7th April 1776 godson of Jaques Rilliet-Plantamour and of Augustin de Candolle - historian and genealogist. His studies for the magistracy or diplomacy were unfortunately brought to an end by the Revolution which ruined his family and compelled him to emigrate. He then adopted the commercial profession for which he had no vocation, but it was the only one in which he could hope to acquire independent means, by his aptitude for work, and his remarkable gift for languages. Besides Latin and Greek of which he was a master and English which he spoke and wrote as his mother tongue, he knew German, Dutch, Russian, Spanish and Italian, and was conversant with most of the popular dialects of the latter. This enabled him to obtain very important posts in the best banking houses of London, Holland, Germany and Russia, but these occupations did not prevent him from continuing his favourite studies, literature, languages and specially history which his frequent travels gave him opportunities of studying in the principal libraries and archives of Europe. Deeply attached to his native land, he remained zealous for what was called "the good cause", the triumph of which could alone restore the independence of Geneva. When therefore Lord Carlisle, in 1798 introduced in Parliament a motion to help the Swiss against the French, Galiffe volunteered to undertake the dangerous task of intermediary. He was then in frequent communication with the principal members of Parliament, the Duke of Portland, Lord Fitzwilliam, Lord Grenville and the famous Pitt, whose support had to be obtained. Finding that negotiations were dragging he did not hesitate to sacrifice his excellent position in London to proceed with a few friends firmly determined to accomplish their object in the best way that circumstances would permit. Adverse news from the theatre of the war stopped him on the way, and he enlisted as a Volunteer in a Militia Corps which was raised in England when a French invasion was expected. - After several years spent in Holland, at Gottingen, Hamburg and Berlin, he entered in 1805 the firm of Baron de Rall, banker of the Imperial Court at St. Petersburg. - M. de Speransky who was then Prime Minister made him tempting offers to enter the Russian Civil Service, but the fear of sacrificing his independence led him to refuse them, as also a proposal to take the direction of a Russian National Bank which was then being discussed.  It was during that period of his life that he kept a very interesting correspondence with Mme de Stael. On receipt of the news that the independence of Geneva was seriously threatened by the return of Napoleon, Galiffe gave up his splendid prospects in Russia to return and enlist as a private in the Geneva contingent, in which he served throughout the campaign of Franche-Comte, first as Staff-secretary and afterwards as an Officer. After the death of his parents, he went to Italy in 1816, and related his travels in his first book, "Italy and its inhabitants" published (in English) in London, which the reviews of the time described as one of the best of its kind. In 1820, the brothers Brougham, appointed to defend Queen Carolina, called him twice to Milan, where his indispensable assistance was required by them in the preparation of that famous trial. Having returned to Geneva where he married and resided till 1841, he set himself to study the history of his country, and worked at it until his death. Appointed to the "Commission des Archives" he undertook by himself, and gratuitously, to sort and classify thousands of documents which had been completely neglected since the Revolution, and which during the foreign occupation had been left in a state of chaos and filth. For over twenty years he persevered in this fatiguing work with a zeal which undermined his health, but neither his illness, nor his infirmities nor even the difficulties placed in his way by the ignorance and contempt of those who should have helped him, could stop him in his self-imposed task. Not only did he reconstitute the Archives of Geneva and save them from certain destruction, but he searched for every item of information necessary to control and complete them, not only in the archives of neighbouring towns but all over Switzerland, in the registers of parishes and castles in Savoy, in the Pays de Gex, at Lyons, Dijon, Paris, Chambery, Turin, Lucca and Florence. From 1829 to 1831 he published successively as first result of his work, two volumes of "Materials for the History of Geneva" and 2 volumes of "Genealogical Notices on Genevese families" (the third appeared in 1835). This at once established his reputation as an historian of Geneva, but only the experts can realise the labour which these books represent. The "Letters on the Middle-Ages", addressed in 1838 to the famous historian Schlosser, are the last historical work which he gave to the public. Schlosser declared in his "Heidelberger Yahrbucher 1839" that it was the best and most learned essay he had read, as regards knowledge and criticism of the subject. The "Letters written from Paris" had been addressed by Galiffe in 1827 to his intimate friend, Lord Brougham, Chancellor of England. They were published in 1830 at the request of several persons to whom they had been communicated and who had been struck by the wonderful foresight with which the author had anticipated the events and solution of the political situation in France. Although he filled no public functions in Geneva, except that of Municipal Councillor for the commune of Satigny, he took an active part in all political and religious discussions. Full of sympathy with the principles of Aristocracy yet he condemned them when they were opposed to progress, of which he was a sincere partisan and consequently he sometimes felt himself awkwardly situated at a time when compromise was considered as a doctrine in the political system. Sincere and convinced protestant, although a declared enemy of the calvinist dogma and system, he was a zealous champion of the liberty of creed, and in 1835 he vehemently opposed the celebration of the Jubilee of the Reformation, which he considered a blunder likely to cause discord between the citizens of the two religions. (Lettres a un pasteur du Canton, 1835) The general public is only acquainted with a portion of Galiffe's works, as the major portion is still unpublished. Besides his writings on all branches of the history of Geneva, he left a large number of sketches, notes, extracts, historical, literary and artistic criticisms, studies on languages, a very learned genealogical notice on the principal houses of the princes and counts of Southern and Central Europe, shedding considerable light on the most obscure period of the Middle-Ages, and lastly a voluminous correspondence.  The latter part of his literary legacy is not the least interesting item, as he was in constant communication with the celebrities of many countries. To those already named, Mme de Staël and Lord Brougham, (Lord Chancellor of England and one of his intimate friends) must be added, Mr Backhouse, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Lord Grosvenor, afterwards Marquis of Westminster. Among politicians and statesmen may be named Lord Fitzwilliam, Viceroy of Ireland, Lord Carlisle, Lord Palmerston, William Russell, Capo d'Istria, Marquis Luchesini, Ambassador to Prussia, Count Rossi, Baron Stein, Wickham, British Minister with the Army of Princes, M.de Speransky, Prime Minister of Russia, and Count J de Maistre - among historians, Messrs de Barante, Thierry, Mignet, Michelet, Sismondi, Schlosser, Karamzine, Viasemsky, and in Switzerland, de Mulinen, de Grenus, d'Estavayer, de Gingins, de Charriere - among professors, Fellenberg and Bonstetten - among women-authors, Lady Charlotte Bury, Mme de Montolieu, Miss Edgeworth, Mme Necker de Saussure - among musicians, Dusseck, C M de Weber, Steibelt, Field and Abbe Litz who owed him his first letters of recommendation - the poet C Didier whom he was the first to encourage, the famous naturalist Agassiz whom he assisted pecuniarily in the prosecution of his studies, etc., etc. - As historian of Geneva, Galiffe is certainly the pioneer of the modern school of History. His publications, drawn direct from authentic documents shocked many people by the discredit which they seemed to throw on the conventional ideas of the old school, which the dominating party of the time considered as a sort of Palladium. Tired at least of the worries caused by his keen polemics, he preferred to go and settle with his family in Tuscany, without waiting for the political reaction which he had foreseen, and died at Florence 15th December 1853.  (See "Notice on the life and works of J A Galiffe" - D'un siecle a l'autre Journal de Geneve 31st December 1853 - Memoires de la Societe d'histoire et d'archeologie 1854 - Les etudes genealogiques a Geneve, by Professor Ritter - Histoire de Geneve, by Gaullieur.) Married 1st, 20th October 1817, Elizabeth Philippine only daughter of No: Jean Antoine de Claparede, President of the Civil Tribunal, and of Alexandrine-Jeanne-Antoinette Dunant died 18th April 1825. 2nd: 26th May 1827, Amelie Francoise, daughter of No: Charles Pictet, Honorary Councillor, plenipotentiary Minister of the Swiss Confederation at the Congress of Vienna, Paris and Turin, and of Sara de Rochemont, died at Florence 14th August 1872. He had by the first: (1) Jean-Barthelemy, who follows: (2) Sophie Anne Marie Catherine, born 16th April 1825 god-daughter of Prince Pierre Andreiowitch Viasemsky, died at Florence 14th November 1841. She showed remarkable dispositions for literature and music. Jean (John) Barthelemy Gaifre Galiffe, born at Geneva 31st July 1818, godson of John Thellusson, Lord Rendlesham, of John Backhouse, Minister of Foreign Affairs London, and of Mme Thellusson-Ployard.

 

Tabernacolo. Sec. XIX, post 9/1849. Ambito toscano. Tabernacolo in marmo scolpito con elementi gotichi, recinto in pietra serena. Possibile intervento di consolidamento e pulitura. [M: A: 254; L: 64; P: 25; RM: 2.5; L: 286; P: 186; RPs: A: 77; L: 300; P: 227.] ( Eglise Evangelique-Reformèe de Florence Règistre des Morts: Jacques Augustin Galiffe, Genève, Confederation Suisse, Rentier/ I: 1852-1859 'Registre des Sepultures avec detail des frais, Paoli 362/ Q 98: 300 Paoli/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Galiffe/ Giacomo A./ / Svizzera/ Firenze/ 15 Dicembre/ 1853/ Anni 77/ 523. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. 

D27N/ D47B/ 228/ SOPHIE ANNE MARIE CATHERINE GALIFFE/ SVIZZERA
Sophie Anne Marie Catherine, born 16th April 1825, daughter to Jacques Augustine Galiffe, god-daughter of Prince Pierre Andreiowitch Viasemsky, died at Florence 14th November 1841. She showed remarkable dispositions for literature and music. Her brother, Jean (John) Barthelemy Gaifre Galiffe, - who is not buried here - was 'Educated at the Fellenberg Institute, Hofwyl; Doctor of Law of the University of Heidelberg 1842, Mayor of the Commune of Satigny 1853-1858.  Deputy to the Grand Conseil (Legislative Council) 1854, professor of National history at the Academy of Geneva 1861-65, Consul 1866, and afterwards Consul-General for Denmark with the Swiss Confederation 1883 - represented that power at the 2nd Congress of the Red-Cross at Geneva 1868, and at the Congress of the Universal Postal Union at Berne 1875. - Member (active, honorary or corresponding) of nearly all the historical or archaeological societies of Switzerland, of the National Geneva Institute, of the Royal Committee of National History of Italy, of the Academy of Savoy, and of the Archaeological Society of the Rhenish Provinces, etc., etc., Knight of the Danish order of Danebrog, and of the Italian order of St. Maurice et Lazare.  Died 25th February 1890 - Following his father's footsteps he devoted the greater part of his life to studies of history, archaeology, genealogy and heraldry, in which his native country held the foremost part.  Expert as learned as he was exact and conscientious, he left a series of solid works the value of which is as much appreciated abroad as it is in Geneva, and he is justly entitled to be considered as one of the first, and possibly the best known of Geneva's National Historians.

N° 135       Sophie Galiffe Claparede, fille de Jacques Galiffe de Genève, âgé
                     de 16 ½ ans, morte à Florence le 14 9bre, 1841, a été enseveli le 16
                     du même mois dans le cimetière del'Eglise évangelique de Florence
                                                               Mse Droin Pr~
Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Galiffe [Claparede]/ Sofia/ Svizzera/ Firenze/ 14 Novembre/ 1841/ Anni 16/ 228. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. 

D27N/ D47C/ 1178 AMALIE PICTET GALIFFE/ SVIZZERA
Amelie Francoise, daughter of No: Charles Pictet, Honorary Councillor, plenipotentiary Minister of the Swiss Confederation at the Congress of Vienna, Paris and Turin, and of Sara de Rochemont, wife, then widow, to Jacques Augustin Galiff, died at Florence 14th August 1872. She had a long widowhood, but also the consolation of her husband's and her father's fame. Their tombs are now seemingly lost, but the records indicate that Amalie Pictet Galiffe was buried in Sector C, which corresponds to the modern Sectors C and D, while the number 1178 is chiseled to the left side of D47. Admiral Pellew's wife's tomb was relocated to be beside him in Sector A, A111-112.



Eglise Evangelique-Reforméée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Amalie Galiffe, fille de Charles Pictet/ IV: 1871-1875 'Registre des Sepultures' avec detail des frais, Francs 307, C/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Galiffe nata Pictet/ Amalia/ Carlo/ Svizzera/ Firenze/ 14 Agosto/ 1872/ Anni 82/ 1178. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. 

B12G/ B108/ 624/ JOSEPH GARROW/ INDIA
Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, II.150-159: The little boy was born to the Indian Civil Servant's wife, Sultana, who was said to be an Indian princess. Joseph Garrow senior left his son Joseph £5,000, the interest to be used for his education ‘which I desire may be as good as he is capable of receiving in Europe’. He left his sister Eleanora Garrow £2,000 and a further £1,000 on condition that she ‘takes care of and attends to the education’ of his son. Eleanora certainly seems to have been Joseph’s affectionate aunt, and in her will, proved in July 1805, she left him £1,000 in 4% stock, to be given to him when he was 21. She also left £1,000 and some silver items to John Wright, her father’s nephew who was at Caius College, Cambridge, ‘in expectation he will continue as far as lies in his power to be a kind Friend to the dear Son of my late worthy Brother Joseph’. John Wright was in his early 30s and was about to take deacon’s orders. Joseph Garrow translated, The early life of Dante Alighieri, which he published with the Italian and English on facing pages. It was printed in Florence by Felix Le Monnier in 1846. Times Literary Supplement 17/5/1920, remarked 'but it is a curious footnote to the literary annals of Anglo-India which proves that the son of an Indian mother lived to translate Dante and to move in a circle where the Brownings and Landor were the greater lights'. JLMaquay, Diaries 13/11/1857 'old Garrow wretched man died on Tuesday paralytic stroke.' His daughter Theodosia (T. Garrow on the title page) made a translation of Giovanni Battista Niccolini’s, Arnold of Brescia, a tragedy, and this was published in London, also in 1846. See B85/ THEODOSIA (GARROW) TROLLOPE, C77/ HARRIET THEODOSIA FISHER (GARROW). See also Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, Russell1.pdf

     
Joseph Garrow, Joseph [or, less likely, Sir William Garrow], Eleanor

Cippo. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 11/1857. Ambito toscano. Cippo in pietra serena a sostituzione del cippo originario (non siamo a conoscenza dell'epoca), frammenti cippo originario conservati, inciso con iscrizione sepolcrale in latino in lettere capitali e numeri arabi, epitaffio di Thomas Adolphus Trollope, genero di Joseph Garrow. [M: A: 104. L: 60. P: 19.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in latino in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: HIC JACET IOSEPHUS GARROW/ ARMr/ DE BRADDONS IN AGRO DEVON/ APUD INDOS NATUS/ A.D. 1789/ FLORENTIAN DENATUS/ A.D. 1857/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Joseph Garrow, d'Angleterre/ I: 1852-1859 'Registre des Sèpultures avec detail des frais', Paoli 685/ Q 280: 408 Paoli/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N°242, Burial 12/11, Rev O'Neill; marriage of child Theodosia 03/04/48 to Thomas Adolphus Trollope at HBM (Hamilton), Joseph Garrow, Harriet Fisher, Frances Trollope present, Rev Robbins (E101)/ Maquay Diaries: 13 Nov 1857/ Morning Chronicle/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Garrow/ +/ Giuseppe/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 10 Novembre/ 1867 [1857]/ Anni 67/ 624/ father of Theodosia Garrow-Trollope (12 Aprile/ 1865/ Anni 46/ 904/+/ C11E), stepfather of Harriet Theodosia Fisher (12 Novembre/ 1848/ Anni 37/ 393/ Latin epitaph written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope). See Giuliana Artom Treves, Golden Ring, pp. 137/Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. See Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' holdings, TAU

Contessa Valeria Gigliucci. Clara Novello's Reminiscences. London: Edward Arnold, 1910. Syracuse University, Florence, 2005. See also Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Dramatic Works.

D29M/ C19/ COUNTESS EDITH MARGARET (MOZLEY) GIGLIUCCI/ ENGLAND/ C20/ CONTE MARIO GIGLIUCCI/ ITALIA/ ENGLAND
The two Counts Gigliucci are the sons of Clara Novello, the English singer of the great music publishing family. Her father, Vincent Novello, was an Italian who married an Englishwoman. Clara Novello opened the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition her voice filling the whole vast hall without electronic support, B32/ HIRAM POWERS' 'Greek Slave' being placed at the centre of that Crystal Palace. Mary Somerville in her autobiography gives a fine account of listening to Clara Novello, in old age, still singing exquisitely. The counts in turn marry two sisters, daughters of the Jewish Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Charles Mozley.  Garibaldi was frequently a visitor to Clara and her son, Count Mario, who fought for him during the Risorgimento. Clara (like Eleanora Duse) had to resume her singing career to support her family when their property was lost. Based in Fermo, except when in exile, their Florentine residence was the Villa Rosa which now houses Syracuse University in Piazza Savonarola, Florence. The American University paid for the restoration of these tombs, whose pietra serena was crumbling into sand, by Alberto Casciani, and Aureo Anello contributed the work of Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu conserving the iron and brass railings around them. A further monument for this family is to be found in the Santissima Annunziata.

                                     
  The musical Novello family                       Edith Margaret Gigliucci
                                                                           John Gibson, R.A. Royal Academy of Arts, London

Urne. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XX, post 12/1909// 1/1937. Ambito toscano. Urne in  pietra serena, scolpite con stemma e gigli, recinzione in ferro e ottone. Intervento di restauro conservativo Meridiana Restauri di Alberto Casciani, 2008; intervento conservativo su ferro e ottone Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 2008//[Stemma]/ Iscrizione sepolcrale incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: EDITH MARGARET/ MOGLIE DEL CONTE MARIO GIGLIUCCI/ NATA LIVERPOOL IL 26 AGOSTO 1847/ MORTA IN FIRENZE IL 16 NOVEMBRE 1909// CHARITATEM/ DILEXIT [Ephesians 2.4]/ C20/ CONTE MARIO GIGLIUCCI/ ITALIA/ ENGLAND Intervento conservativo sulla pietra serena Meridiana Restauri di Alberto Casciani, 2007; intervento conservativo su ferro e ottone Dumitrescu, 2008. [P.s.: A: 63; L: 176; P: 64; RP.s.F: A: 67; L: 192; P: 192.][Stemma]/ CONTE MARIO GIGLIUCCI/ PATRIZIO FERMANO/ NATO A FERMO IL 19 NOVEMBRE 1847/ MORTO A FIRENZE IL 13 GENNAIO 1937/ RECTE ET SUAVITER/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda/ °=Kathleen Novello Cashman. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei', Clara Novello's Reminiscences, ed. by her daughter, Contessa Valeria Gigliucci, with a memoir by Arthur D. Coleridge (London: Edward Arnold, 1910), TAU.

D30M/ C21/ COUNTESS CHARLOTTE SOPHIA (MOZLEY) GIGLIUCCI/ ENGLAND/ D30L/ C22/ CONTE GIOVANNI GIGLIUCCI/ ITALIA/ ENGLAND
The two Counts Gigliucci are the sons of Clara Novello, the English singer of the great music publishing family, who in turn marry two sisters, daughters of the Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Their Villa Rosa is now owned by Syracuse University in Florence. The forsythia on the arch is always the first to flower, even in December-January, in the Cemetery. See above for the fuller account.

   

Urne. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XX, post 12/1906//2/1920. Ambito toscano. Urne in pietra serena scolpite con stemma e gigli, recinzione in ottone e ferro, arco in ferro. Intervento di restauro Meridiana Restauri di Alberto Casciani, 2008; intervento conservativo sul ferro e sull'ottone Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 2008// [Stemma]/ Iscrizione sepolcrale incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: CHARLOTTE SOPHIA, MOGLIE DEL CONTE GIOVANNI GIGLIUCCI/ NATA A LIVERPOOL IL 4 AGOSTO 1841/ MORTA A FIRENZE IL 12 FEBBRAIO 1920/ ET LAUDENT EAM IN PORTIS OPERA TUA/ D30L/ C22/ CONTE GIOVANNI GIGLIUCCI/ ITALIA/ ENGLAND/ Intervento di restauro conservativo Meridiana Restauri, 2008; intervento conservativo su ferro e ottone Daniel Dumitrescu, 2008/ [P.s. A: 67; L: 173; P: 65; RP.s.F: A: 68; L: 192; P: 192.] [Stemma]/ CONTE GIOVANNI GIGLIUCCI/ PATRIZIO FERMANO, NATO A FERMO IL 18 NOVEMBRE 1844/ MORTO A FIRENZE IL 6 DICEMBRE 1906/ VIRTUTE ET FIDE BENE QUI LATUIT BENE VIXIT/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda/°=Kathleen Novello Cashman. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

Horace Hall/ Cavaliere Orazio Hall/D32

Alessandro Panajia. Un abbraccio a Grande Orchestra, con Timpani, Tamburi e Pifferi: Due inediti di Gioachino Rossini. Appendix su Horace Hall. Pisa: Edizione ETS, 2023. Autographed. Antonio Panajia, Firenze, 2024.

Thomas Ayrault Jackson/E62

Jacqueline Marie Musacchia. "Jane M. Healey Jackson, a Sculptor's Life Abroad". Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late nineteenth-Century Art Markets and their Social Networks. Ed. Lynn Catterson. Leiden: Brill, 2020. P. 367.

E13O/ E62/ 964/ THOMAS AYRAULT  JACKSON/ AMERICA
Not a year old. His father, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio and John McGuigan note, was the American sculptor John Adams Jackson, his sister Margaret who survived him, became a Wellesley professor of Italian literature. It is possible his father designed his now-restored tomb.

    

Cippo. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 9/1867. Ambito toscano. Cippo in marmo con croce, marmo sporco, colonnine recinto in pietra serena rotte.

A. Henry Savage Landor. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or 3,8000 miles on a Pack Saddle in Vezo and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands. London: Murray, 1893. Piero Fusi, Firenze, 2010.

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

Piero Fusi. A Henry Savage Landor. Sono arrivati gli inglesi: Ritratti s storie dell'Inglese di Caloppiano tratti da Everywhere, the Memoris of an Explorer (1924). Vinci, 2017. 2018.

Piero Fusi. Portfolio with CDs.

John Landor/F4U.3:

This Italo-Austrian scholar also published this thesis a third time as an appendix to Sundby, Appendix II, pp. 279-388. He notes that there are two principal Tesoro MS families, of which one is in print. He, like Minckwitz, proposed a new edition which did not materialize.]

C28I/ C27/ 2011/ ADOLFO MUSSAFIA/ TRIESTE/ REGINA MUSSAFIA/ AUSTRIA
Adolfo Mussafia, from a Jewish family in Trieste, Professor in Vienna, was a great scholar of Dante and his teacher, Brunetto Latino, and for this chose to be buried in Florence rather than under Austrian hegemony, his wife arranging for her ashes from Vienna to be buried with his in death and his papers given to the University of Florence. It is most appropriate that he and Robert Davidsohn now lie so close to each other. He has an entry in Wikipedia. His descendant, Professor Leopoldo Stefanulti, who looks exactly like the medallion portrait of Adolfo Mussafia on his tomb, arranged for its repair and cleaning by Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu. This is one among several tombs with a portrait medallion: A64/ GEORGE AUGUSTUS WALLIS by Aristodemos Costoli, A15/ ANNE SUSANNA (LLOYD) HORNER by Francesco Jerace; AB7/ INA BOSS SAULTER, by Ettore Ximenes; B4/ ELENA NIKITICNA DIK, NATA AKZYNOVA by Fyodor Fyodorovitsch Kamensky; C3/ THOMAS SOUTHWOOD SMITH by Joel T. Hart; C27/ Adolfo Mussafia; D108/ THEODORE PARKER by William Wetmore Story; D127/ JAMES ROBERTS, by Joel T. Hart?; E12/ JAMES LORIMER GRAHAM, JR by Launt Thompson; E9/ WALTER KENNEDY LAWRIE by Pietro Bazzanti, F27/ PHILIPPINA (SIMONS) CIAMPI, by Joel T. Hart?)

 

Sarcofago. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XX, post 6/1905// 3/1915. Ambito toscano. Sarcofago in marmo bianco scolpito, tondo con la sua effige (apice naso mancante o eroso) posto su quattro colonne in marmo grigio e lastra in marmo bianco (piccole parti distaccate), sul fronte e tergo e sui due fianchi laterali ghirlande e festoni, recinto in pietra serena. Possibile intervento di consolidamento e pulitura sul marmo (richiesta da parte di un discendente.  [M: A: 72; L: 91.8; P: 52.5; A Colonne: A: 119.5; Circum: 49; L/P: 24.5; M Base: 17.6; L: 123.3; P: 82; RP.s.: A: 43.5; L/P: 201.]/ Iscrizione sepolcrale incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi e romani: ADOLFO MUSSAFIA/ N. A SPALATO, IL 15 FEBBRAIO 1834/ M. A FIRENZE IL 7 GIUGNO 1905 / LA MOGLIE INCONSOLATA/ REGINA MUSSAFIA/ AUSTRIA/ DELLA VEDOVA REGINA MVSSAFIA MORTA A VIENNA IL XV/ MARZO M.D.CCCC.XV. QVI PER SVO VOLERE FVRONO DEPOSTE LE CENERI IL SUSSEGVENTE XI APRILE/ 2011/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda/°=Leopoldo Stefanulti. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

Bartolomeo Odicini/A47:

Mario De Carolis. Garibaldi ferito in Aspramonte. Arpino: Arpinate Stampa, 2011.

Bartolomeo Odicini. A Roma il Papato, Risposto di Bartolomeo Odicini. Firenze, 1861.

This doctor, born in Genova, treated Anita Garibaldi and her starving children in Montevideo, Uruguay, and, later, Garibaldi himself after the Battle of Aspramonte. It is interesting that the two doctors, Sir David Dumbreck and Bartolomeo Odicini, are buried side by side.

 

 
Il dott. Odicini e suoi figli, Uruguay

Colonna. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 1/1876. Ambito toscano. Colonna in marmo, recinto in ferro. Intervento di pulitura da Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 2010.. [M: A: 214; circum 135.5; L/P: 80.5; RF: A: 35; L: 90; P: 210.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in spagnole in lettere capitali e numeri romani e arabi, incisa: AQUI DESCANSA EL DOCTOR BARTOLOME ODICINI / MDCCCLXXVI// 1341/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazioni nel Cimitero di Pinti: Odicini/ Bartolommeo/ Pietro Antonio/ Italia/ Firenze/ 22 Gennaio/ 1876/ Anni 69/ 1341/ °=Scholar, Mario De Carolis, 2011. Intervento di pulitura, Dumitrescu, 2011. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

Next to Rome, in point of interest to me, is the classic city of Florence, and thither we went from the Eternal City. One might never tire of what is here to be seen. The first thing Mrs. Douglass and I did, on our arrival in Florence, was to visit the grave of Theodore Parker and at the same time that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (B8). The preacher and the poet lie near each other. The soul of each was devoted to liberty. The brave stand taken by Theodore Parker during the antislavery conflict endeared him to my heart, and naturally enough the spot made sacred by his ashes was the first to draw me to its side. He had a voice for the slave when nearly all the pulpits of the land were dumb. Looking upon the little mound of earth that covered his dust, I felt the pathos of his simple grave. It did not seem well that the remains of the great American preacher should rest thus in a foreign soil, far away from the hearts and hands which would gladly linger about it and keep it well adorned with flowers. Than Theodore Parker no man was more intensely American. Broad as the land in his sympathy with mankind, he was yet a loving son of New England and thoroughly Bostonian in his thoughts, feelings, and activities. The liberal thought which he taught had in his native land its natural home and largest welcome, and I therefore felt that his dust should have been brought here. It was in his pulpit that I made my first antislavery speech in Roxbury. That its doors opened to me in that dark period was due to him. I remember, too, his lovingkindness when I was persecuted for my change of opinion as to political action. Theodore Parker never joined that warfare upon me. He loved Mr. Garrison, but was not a Garrisonian. He worked with the sects, but was not a sectarian. His character was cast in a mold too large to be pressed into a form or reform less broad than humanity. He would shed his blood as quickly for a black fugitive slave pursued by human hounds as for a white President of the United States. He was the friend of the non-voting and non-resistant class of abolitionists, but not less the friend of Henry Wilson, Charles Sumner, Gerrit Smith, and John Brown. He was the large and generous brother of all men, honestly endeavoring to bring about the abolition of Negro slavery. It has lately been attempted to class him with the contemners of the Negro. Could that be established, it would convict him of duplicity and hypocrisy of the most revolting kind. But his whole life and character are in direct contradiction to that assumption.

While he had written the following in his diary:





Following this visit to see Theodore Parker's tomb, Douglass agitated for a better monument to honour him, William Wetmore Story being commissioned to carry out the present one. Story had already created a bust of Parker from life in Rome, and now portrayed him in bas-relief. This is one among several tombs with a portrait medallion: A64/ GEORGE AUGUSTUS WALLIS by Aristodemos Costoli; A15/ ANNE SUSANNA (LLOYD) HORNER by Francesco Jerace; AB7/ INA BOSS SAULTER, by Ettore Ximenes; B4/ ELENA NIKITICNA DIK, NATA AKZYNOVA by Fyodor Fyodorovitsch Kamensky; C3/ THOMAS SOUTHWOOD SMITH by Joel T. Hart; D108/ THEODORE PARKER by William Wetmore Story; D127/ JAMES ROBERTS, by Joel T. Hart?; E12/ JAMES LORIMER GRAHAM, JR by Launt Thompson; E9/ WALTER KENNEDY LAWRIE by Pietro Bazzanti, F27/ PHILIPPINA (SIMONS) CIAMPI, by Joel T. Hart? When President Obama ordered the carpet for the Oval Office he included words he thought originated with Martin Luther King, Jr., but which are actually Parker's words abbreviated by King from a sermon Parker preached against slavery in 1853: 'How long? Not long because the arc of the moral compass is long, but it bends towards justice'. He quoted them again at Nelson Mandela's funeral.

                                           
Theodore Parker's desk with statues                                      Frederick Douglass at Lloyd Garrison's tomb
of Jesus and Spartacus                    Joel Hart(F28)'s tomb for Theodore Parker                        William Wetmore Story's tomb for Theodore Parker

Cippo. Primo cippo scultore Joel Tanner Hart, secondo cippo (l'attuale) di William Wetmore Story. Sec. XIX, post 5/1860. Ambito toscano. Cippo in marmo scolpito, entro medaglione con foglie d'alloro effige di Theodore Parker. Intervento di restauro conservativo Scuola per l'Arte ed il Restauro di Palazzo Spinelli, 1999; Intervento di restauro e pulitura dopo il temporale, di Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 3/2014-2015  [M: A: 200; L: 90.5; P: 29; RP.s. A: 24; L: 115; P: 200.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in inglese incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: THEODORE PARKER/ THE GREAT AMERICAN PREACHER/ BORN AT LEXINGTON MASSACHUSETTS/ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/ AUGUST 24TH 1810/ DIED AT FLORENCE ITALY/ MAY 10 1860/ HIS NAME IS ENGRAVED IN MARBLE/ HIS VIRTUES IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE HE/ HELPED TO FREE FROM SLAVERY/ AND SUPERSTITION/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Le Reverent Theodore Parker, Lexington /Massachusetts aux Etats-Unis), fils de John Parker et de son épouse Hannah née Stearns/  II: 1859-1865 'Registre des Sepultures avec detail des frais, Paoli 1768/ Q 403: 1103 Paoli/ Hull Packet/  Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Parker/ Rev. Teodoro/ Giovanni/ America/ Firenze/ 10 Maggio/ 1860/ Anni 49/ 698/ Freeman, 232-235/ N&Q 75. Theodore Parker, the great American preacher, b. at Lexington, Mass. 24 Aug 1810, ob. 10 May 1860. Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. See Sally Mitchell, 'Theodore Parker's Graves':  CBVa.html#Mitchell, Elise Madeleine Ciregna, 'Marble Fauns, Angels and Cemeteries,: William Wetmore Story and Friends in Italy', CBVd.html: also Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' holding, Dean Godzins' biography of Theodore Parker, American Heretic,  Atlantic Monthly, 'Theodore Parker', etc. TAU

E13O/ E57/ 1172/ LADY GEORGINA HACKING HAMILTON SEWELL/ ENGLAND
She dies at Richmond but arranges to have her body brought to Florence to lie beside her husband.

 

Tomba in forma di croce. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 5/1872. Ambito toscano. Tomba in pietra serena in forma di croce orizzontale. Intervento di restauro conservativo, allievi della Scuola per l'Arte ed il Restauro di Palazzo Spinelli, 2001. Fondi dai discendenti. Intervento conservativo sul ferro Daniel Dumitrescu, 2008. [P.s. A: 34; L: 61; P: 193; RP.s.F: A: 100; L: 234; P: 354.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in inglese incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: IN MEMORY OF GEORGINA HACKING SEWELL/ WIDOW OF GEN. SIR W.H. SEWELL K.C.B. WHO FELL ASLEEP ON 1 MAY 1872//1172/ IV: 1871-1875 'Registre des Sepultures' avec detail des frais, Francs 391, B, plot b y N° 778, and N° 1172/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 439, Burial 10/06, age 62, Blenheim Villas Richmond/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Sewell/ Giorgina/ / Inghilterra/ Londra/ / / 1172/ +/ N&Q 358 Georgina Hacking Sewell, his wid., ob. 1 May, 1872. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

E12O/ E58/ 778/ SIR WILLIAM HENRY SEWELL/ ENGLAND
Waterloo Committee: SEWELL, William Henry/ Brevet Major, 16th (Queen's) Light Dragoons; Ensign 60th Foot 1806, Exchanged to 16th Light Dragoons 1806. Lt 1807. Capt 1812. Capt 6oth Foot 1813. Bt Major Mar 1814. Lt Colonel 1817. Colonel 1837. Major General 1846. Lt General 1854./ Served in the Peninsula Aug 1808 - Jan 1809 and Mar 1809 - May 1812. On the Staff of the Portuguese Army May 1812 - Apr 1814. Served throughout the campaign as ADC to Lord Beresford. Present at the Corunna campaign, Talavera, Coa, Agueda, Busaco, Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz, San Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Bayonne and Toulouse. MGS , medal with ten clasps for Corunna, Talavera, Busaco, Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz, San Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes and Toulouse. CB. Also in Maida and South America, 1807, on the staff of Lord Beresford. Commanded a Portuguese Cavalry regiment 1816. From 1828 - 54 served in India as Deputy Master General, then in command at Bangalore, then divisional commander at Madras and finally Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army. Returned to England in 1854 and became Colonel of the 79th Cameron Highlanders. Made KCB in 1861. Retired in 1856. Educated at Westminster and Eton, he was W.H. Robertson. On entering the army he took the name of Sewell. Reference: Jameson, Robert. Historical record of the 79th Regiment of Foot, or Cameron Highlanders. 1863'. P. 136. Sewell descendants note he was godson and natural son of King William IV and that Queen Victoria kept him out of the country. Captain Jack Sewell rang the Cemetery's bell in 1945 to see the tombs and took this photograph. I have insisted on preserving this bell intact and in working order, and I have the children burying their parents ring it in order for them to have some control over the chaos at that moment in their lives. In the photograph one can still see the chalice intact on the tomb sculpted by Felicie de Fauveau for E48 SIR CHARLES LYON HERBERT's tomb. One can also see the damage done by a rusting paperclip. Here is part of his letter home to England:

Dearest People, . . . At the moment I'm on leave in Florence & enjoying it a lot. . . I found the General's grave yesterday and his wife's side by side, & took a photo. . . I don't suppose another member of the family will have the opportunity for a long time. What I did decipher was as follows:- 'Beneath this sacred symbol of salvation repose the mortal remains of Gen. Sir. W.H.S., K.E.B., Colonel of 79 Highlanders, who departed this life at Florence 13th March 1862. His wife Georgina Hacking, died on 1 May 1872. His tomb is No 778. The graveyard is in the centre of the Piazza Donatello, in the main boulevard, the Viale Principe Amadeo, Viale Principe Eugenio. It took some time to find the grave once I had looked up the caretaker's book & found his name, as there was no plan . . . The grave is on the right of the central pathway as you go toward the centre of the cemetery, about 5 yards from the path, & almost opposite E.B.B.'s . . . It is closed to the dead now, but the living may enter by pulling on the bell rope at the main gate & waiting till the caretaker or his wife comes to open.

    
                                                  Captain Jack Sewell, 1945

Tomba in forma di croce. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 4/1872. Ambito toscano. Tomba in  forma di croce orizzontale. Intervento conservativo sulla pietra serena allievi della Scuola per l'Arte ed il Restauro di Palazzo Spinelli, 2001. Fondi da parte dei discendenti. Intervento conservativo sul ferro Daniel Dumitrescu, 2008. [P.s. A: 34; L: 61; P: 193; RP.s.F: A: 100; L: 234; P: 354.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in inglese incisa in lettere capitali e non, e numeri arabi: Beneath this sacred symbol of salvation repose the mortal remains of/ General Sir William Henry Sewell, C.B., Colonel of 79 Highlanders/ who departed this life at Florence on/ the 13 March 1862// Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth/ Yea, saith the Saviour, . . . rest from their Labours And their Works do follow them./ Rev. 14. 13 verse//778/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Sir W.H. Sewell, l'Angleterre, Géneral/ II: 1859-1865 'Registre des Sepultures avec detail des frais, Francs 575/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 309, Burial 15/03, Rev O'Neill/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Sewell/ Gen. Giuseppe Enrico/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 13 Marzo/ 1862/ Anni 72/ 778/ + / See also James Bansfield (E12O 771), Homan Mulock (E12O 727) tomb entries/ N&Q 358. General Sir Wm. Henry Sewell, K.C.B., Colonel of 79th Highlanders, ob. 13 March, 1862/ Waterloo Committee/°Tom & Jack Sewell. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. See waterloo.html, Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' holding, TAU

E12O/ E59/ 771/ JAMES BANSFIELD/ ENGLAND
His tomb and that of King William IV's son's wife(E57/ LADY GEORGINA HACKING HAMILTON SEWELL) lie on either side of the king's natural son(E58/ SIR WILLIAM HENRY SEWELL), each being equal. We witness amongst many of these tombs the great affection and respect their masters and mistresses paid to servants under their roof: CHARLES CROSBIE, A20 to MARY DUVALL, A80; the friends of the late WILLIAM READER, A23 to HENRY AUSTIN, E34; FRANCES (MILTON) TROLLOPE, B80, THEODOSIA (GARROW) TROLLOPE, B85, and HARRIET THEODOSIA FISHER (GARROW), C77, to ELIZABETH SHINNER, C71; ISABELLA BOUILLON LANZONI, D29, to ANNA ROFFY, C61; SIR WILLIAM HENRY SEWELL, E58, to JAMES BANSFIELD, E59; Prince Demidoff to GEORGE FREDERIC WAIHINGER, E64; Rosina Buonarotti Simoni to MARY ANNE SALISBURY, F2. Webbs, Anglo-Florentines, p. 452.

 

Croce orizzontale. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 1/1862. Ambito toscano. Croce orizzontale in pietra serena entro recinto in pietra serena e ferro, recinto condiviso con i sepolcri dei Sewell, intervento conservativo sulla pietra serena allievi della Scuola per l'Arte ed il Restauro di Palazzo Spinelli, 2000, intervento conservativo sul ferro Daniel Dumitrescu, 2008. [P.s. A: 31; L: 194; P: 69.5; RP.s.F: A: 100; L: 234; P: 354.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in lingua inglese incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: "NOT NOW AS A SERVANT ABOVE A SERVANT A BROTHER BELOVED" PHILEMON 16 VERSE/ SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES BANSFIELD PRIVATE IN THE 11TH HUSSARS/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 11TH OF JANUARY 1862/ HE WAS FOR 20 YEARS THE FAITHFUL AND DEVOTED SERVANT OF GENERAL SIR W.H. SEWELL K.C.B. BY WHOSE WIDOW THIS TOMB WAS RAISED// 771/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: James Bansfield, l'Angleterre/ II: 1859-1865 'Registre des Sepultures avec detail des frais, Paoli 637/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 306/ cause of death, bronchitis, Burial 13/01, Rev O'Neill/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: 71. Bansfield/ Giacomo/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 11 Gennaio/ 1862/ Anni 49/ 771/ See Sewell, Mulock, E12O, tombs/ N&Q 358 James Bansfield, late private in 13th Hussars, for 20 years servant of General Sir W. H. Sewell, ob. 11 Jan., 1862/°=Tom & Jack Sewell. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

E12O/ E60/ 727/ HOMAN MULOCK/ IRELAND
His father, Thomas Homan Mulock, a physician, educated in Dublin at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Medical School of Trinity College, died young, and the family, twelve children in all, lived in genteel poverty. A sister, Elizabeth Georgina, three years earlier, marries a member of the Bengal Artillery at Villa Normanby. Another sister, Hester, four years later, marries Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate, who will publish B42/ ISABELLA BLAGDEN's poems. Wikipedia: 'On 14 November 1865 Austin married Hester Jane Homan-Mulock, tenth child of Thomas Homan-Mulock and Frances Sophia Berry at Marylebone Parish Church, London. In his Autobiography, Austin gives a curious account of their first meeting with her. Seeing the photograph of a young lady in an album belonging to a friend in Florence, he had asked: ‘Who is that?’ and received the reply, ‘The girl you ought to marry, if you can.’ Austin brought home a letter of introduction, the presentation of which led to his receiving at his cottage in Hertfordshire two of the Misses Mulock and their chaperon, together with their friend T.A. Trollope, brother of Anthony Trollope. At the second visit Hester became engaged to Alfred. Throughout his career as journalist and writer Austin derived constant help and support from his wife. She died suddenly on 23 September 1929 at her residence in Kensington'. A relative became Sir William Mulock, a lawyer, educator, politician, in Canada: Wikipedia. This consumptive 14 year-old is the first burial in a plot purchased by E58/ SIR WILLIAM HENRY SEWELL, a natural son of King William IV of England. Is this an act of charity by the General or by Elizabeth Georgina Mulock's husband, or by both? The widowed, orphaned Mulocks would have been unlikely to have paid these costly funeral expenses. The Webbs note that it is also the first entry in the Guildhall Library Register with the simple heading 'Tuscany', now merely a province in the Kingdom of Italy and no longer its capital. Notes and Queries supplies the now lost inscription.

 

Lastra. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 4/1861. Ambito toscano. Lastra in marmo, rialzata su basamento in pietra, marmo molto eroso. Recinto in pietra serena e ferro condiviso con i sepolcri dei Sewell. [M: A: 2; L: 61.5; P: 137; P.s. A: 18; L: 73; P: 146;  RP.s.F: A: 100; L: 234; P: 354.] Iscrizione andata perduta, N&Q: [HOMAN MULOCK, SON OF THOMAS HOMAN AND FRANCES SOPHIA MULLOCK, OF BELLAIR, KING'S COUNTY, IRELAND, DIED 21 APRIL 1861, AT 14], identificabile solo dal numero '727'.  Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Homan Mulock, l'Angleterre, fils de Homan Mulock et de Frances Sophia/ II: 1859-1865 'Registre des Sepultures avec detail des frais, Paoli 637/ Q 447: 360 Paoli, includes 55 Paoli for English Church's tax/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 290 Burial 23/04, Rev O'Neill, consumption; Marriage relative, G20776 N° 144 01/06/58 Peter MacFarlane Syme to Elizabeth Georgina Mulock at HBM (Normanby) groom esq 1st lieut Bengal Artillery, 4 Mulocks as witnesses, Rev O'Neill/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Mulock/ Homan/ Tommas H./ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 21 Aprile/ 1861/ Anni 14/ 727/ See Sewell/ N&Q 359. Homan Mulock, s. of Thos. Homan and Frances Sophia Mulock, of Bellair, King's Co., Ireland, ob. 21 Ap., 1861, a. 14/°=Robert Hughes Mullock. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. See Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' holdings, TAU for Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, Isa Blagden, Poems, ed. Alfred Austin

C20I/ C3/ 761/ THOMAS SOUTHWOOD SMITH
Pastore Luigi Santini tells us that 'he was a well-known medical doctor who promoted public health reforms and good works supported by the Anglo-Florentine community. His tombstone, sculpted by John Hart, inscribed with verses by Leigh Hunt (the terse poet of early English Romanticism), is near that of Theodore Parker, many of whose philosophic ideas he shared'. He was a Unitarian minister and Edinburgh-trained physician, head of the London Fever Hospital, deeply concerned about poor housing and its connection with disease, especially for children working in mines and factories. He was colleague to Jeremy Bentham, enbalming him at his request,  and escorted Lord Normanby and Charles Dickens through London's slums, teaching them about poor housing conditions and their connection to ill health. Associated with Leonard Horner, who was to have been buried in the 'English' Cemetery beside his wife, A15/ ANNE SUSANNA (LLOYD) HORNER, in Sector A, he had B80/ FRANCES (MILTON) TROLLOPE write Michael Armstrong Factory Boy, and B8/ ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING write Cry of the Children, both of whom are buried in Sector B. He was Octavia Hill's grandfather and guardian, raising her. She continued his work, introducing housing reform in slums. When we have a Roma with tuberculosis we hold alphabet school here beneath the Column and Cross out in the open, rather than in the Library. We find that Roma in Romania are forced by their poverty to live sometimes 12 to one room or 28 to two rooms, with no windows and with tuberculosis in the family, especially amongst the children, which is now becoming resistant to drugs. To install windows would be cheaper and better than to pay later for hospitals and medicines. This is one among several tombs with a portrait medallion: A64/ GEORGE AUGUSTUS WALLIS by Aristodemos Costoli, A15/ ANNE SUSANNA (LLOYD) HORNER by Francesco Jerace; AB7/ INA BOSS SAULTER, by Ettore Ximenes; B4/ ELENA NIKITICNA DIK, NATA AKZYNOVA by Fyodor Fyodorovitsch Kamensky; C3/ THOMAS SOUTHWOOD SMITH by Joel T. Hart; D108/ THEODORE PARKER by William Wetmore Story; D127/ JAMES ROBERTS, by Joel T. Hart?; E12/ JAMES LORIMER GRAHAM, JR by Launt Thompson; E9/ WALTER KENNEDY LAWRIE by Pietro Bazzanti, F27/ PHILIPPINA (SIMONS) CIAMPI, Joel T. Hart?)

       
The University of London's 'auto-icon' of Jeremy Bentham, embalmed at his request by Thomas Southwood Smith, Bentham being the University's founder.

    Harper's Monthly engraving

Obelisco. Scultore: Joel Tanner Hart: Signature on neck of bust: J.T.HART. Sec. XIX, post 12/1861. Ambito toscano. Obelisco in marmo su basamento in marmo a pianta quadrata e inciso. [M: A: 398; L/P: 105.5.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in lingua inglese incisa in lettere capitali e non, numeri arabi e romani: In Memory of SOUTHWOOD SMITH, Physician/ who through the promotion of sanitary/ reform in the principles of which he was/ the first to discover and through other/ philanthropic and literary labours was/ distinguished as a benefactor of Mankind/ Born at Martock, Somersetshire, England/ Dec 21, 1788, Died at Florence/ Dec 10, 1861// + THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM/ OF THEIR FATHER/ MATTHEW XII v.43// [Below Joel T. Hart's sculpted portrait medallion] / Ages shall honor, in their hearts enshrined, thee, SOUTHWOOD SMITH, Physician of Mankind/ Bringer of Air, Light, Health into the home/ Of the rich Poor of happier years to come/ Leigh Hunt/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Southwood Smith, l'Angleterre/ II: 1859-1865 'Registre des Sepultures avec detail des frais, Paoli 577 + Francs 31.36/ Q 490: 300 Paoli/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 301, Rev O'Neill, bronchitis/ Nottinghamshire Guardian, Sheffield and Rotherham Independent, Exminer, Manchester Times, etc./ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Southwood Smith/ M.D./ Tommaso/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 10 Dicembre/ 1861/ Anni 73/ 761/ N&Q 9. Southwood Smith, physican, who through promotion of sanitary reform, the principles of which he was the first to discover and through other philanthropic and literary labours, was distinguished as a benefactor of mankind; b. at Martock, Somerset , ob. 10 Dec 1861 at Florence/ DNB/NDNB/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei', spiritage.html has New Spirit of the Age, ed. Hengist Horne and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Frances Trollope/B80

Frances Trollope. Domestic Manners of the Americans. Lithographs by Auguste Hervieu. London: The Folio Society, 1974. David R. Gilbert, Maidenhead, 2003.

Frances Trollope. Domestic Manners of the Americans. Stroud: Nonsuch, 2006. Pearl Spedding, Bath, 2010.

Frances Trollope. Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw. Introduction, Julia Bolton Holloway. The Trollope Society, 2020. The Trollope Society, 2020.

Frances Trollope. Michael Armstrong The Factory Boy. Stroud: Nonsuch, 2007. Judy Fichtenbaum, Concord, 2009.

Frances Trollope. Paris and the Parisians in 1835. Engravings, A. Hervieu. London: Richard Bentley, 1836. 2 vols. Jeffrey Begeal, North Carolina, 2004.

Frances Trollope. Vienna and the Austrians. Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1938. 2 vols. David Gilbert, Maidenhead, 2004.

Frances Trollope. Widow Barnaby. London: C.M. Clarke, n.d. David Middlewood, Northampton, 2010.

Dennis Looney. Freedom Readers: The African-American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. Dennis Looney, Pittsburgh, 2011.

Pamela Neville-Sington. Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997. 2 copies. Pamela Neville-Sington, London, 2000.

B11E/ B80/ 849/ FRANCES (MILTON) TROLLOPE/ ENGLAND
I noted in 'Iron Chain, Gold Ring': On 28 December 1827, the ship 'Edward' had set sail from the Port of London for the Port of New Orleans. On board were Frances Trollope, 40, Cecilia Trollope, 12, Emily Trollope, 10, Henry Trollope, 14, all English, Frances Wright, 28, American, and August Hervieu, 23, French. Frances Wright, associated with Lafayette, had invited the Trollopes to Nashoba where she had a settlement for the education of Negro slaves. Auguste Hervieu, a brilliant young artist, was the children's tutor and companion. With them also were Hester Rust and William Abbott, their servants. Often Hervieu had to sell his art to feed and house them all'. In Cincinatti she had engaged the young B32/ HIRAM POWERS to do Dante's Commedia in wax, starting his career as a sculptor. Pastore Luigi Santini wrote of her presence in Florence: 'She was the matriarch of a clan of writers; herself, two sons and two daughters-in-law. She arrived in Florence with her son Thomas Adolphus in 1843 and took up residence in Piazza Santa Croce, immediately entering into friendly relations with notables of the Court and the British community. In 1849 she moved with her son and daughter-in-law Theodosia Garrow to a little house, Villino Trollope, in Piazza Barbano (now Indipendenza). She dedicated herself to the theatre, organized Anglo-Florentine social life, and wrote prolifically, and her house became a meeting place and obligatory reference point even for such writers as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Thackeray. Her son's autobiography, What I Remember (London, 1887), is a splendid window on cosmopolitan and cultivated Florence'.

    
Auguste Hervieu                Villino Trollope             

Stele. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 10/1863. Ambito toscano. Stele in marmo incisa in lettere capitali in lingua latina e numeri arabi, marmo sporco, posta su basamento in pietra serena, recinto in pietra serena con quattro colonnini spezzati. Intervento di pulitura, Alberto Casciani/ Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 05/2010.  [M: A: 162. L: 87. P: 51.; P.s. A: 20. L: 96. P: 60; R: A: 38: 198. P: 83.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in latino incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: Iscrizione sepolcrale in latino incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: FRANCESCAE TROLLOPE/ QUOD MORTALE FUIT/ HIC IACET/ . . . / MEMORIA/ NULLUM MARMOR QUAERIT/ APUD STAPLETON/ IN AGRO SOMERSET ANGLORUM/ A.D. 1780 NATA/ FLORENTIAE/ TUMULUM A.D.1863/ NACTA EST/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Françoise Veuve Trolloope, l'Angleterre, fille de Revd. Guillaume Milton, et de Marie, née Gressley, son épouse/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 337 Burial 08/10 Age 84 Rev Pendleton/ Hampshire Advertiser, Morning Post, relict of Thomas Anthony Trollope, Esq, barrister-at-law/ Maquay Diaries, EBB Letters/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Trolloape [Trollope] nata Milton/ Vedova Francesca/ Guglielmo/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 6 Ottobre/ 1863/ Anni 84/ 849/ On the Trollopes in Florence, see Giuliana Artom Treves, Golden Ring, passim/ Thomas Adolphus Trollope writes the Latin of the inscriptions for his mother, his wife, his father-in-law; Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, I & II/ N&Q Francisca Trollope, b. at Stapleton, Somt, 1780, ob. 1863. (In Latin.)/ NDNB entries for Trollopes, etc/*=Dennis Looney. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. Nulla osta. See ironchain.html, http://www-florin.ms/gimel CBV.html#Ayres,

B11E/ B85/ 904/ THEODOSIA (GARROW) TROLLOPE/ ENGLAND
When an invalid child in Torquay, she had known Elizabeth Barrett, likewise a young invalid, both with tuberculosis. Pastore Luigi Santini: 'She arrived in Florence in 1845 with her father [B108/ JOSEPH GARROW, who is buried near her tomb], an able violinist, and her mother, who became friendly with their neighbours, the Trollopes, as a result of a visit by their mutual friend Charles Dickens. She married Thomas Adolphus Trollope and moved to the Piazza Barbano in 1848. She was a talented writer with a wonderful mastery of Italian and translated works by Giusti and G.B. Nicolini. A fanatic supporter of the cause of Italian independence, she published a history of the Tuscan Revolution in the Athenaeum'. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, II.150-159, 166-168, & Chapter XVIII, describes her as Florence's new Corinne; pp. 171-173. Theodosia (T. Garrow on the title page) made a translation of Giovanni Batista Niccolini’s, Arnold of Brescia, a tragedy, and this was published in London in 1846, also wrote History of the Tuscan Revolution. Elizabeth Shinner (C71), her maid, is mentioned in Harriet Fisher’s will, made on 10 July 1846.  She wrote: ‘To Eliz.th.  Shinner maid servant the sum of 30£ my gold watch and whatever wearing apparel my sister Theodosia Garrow may not wish to retain’. This half-sister, C77/ HARRIET THEODOSIA FISHER (GARROW), is buried with C71/ ELIZABETH SHINNER, their maid, in Sector C. We witness amongst many of these tombs the great affection and respect their masters and mistresses paid to servants under their roof: CHARLES CROSBIE, A20 to MARY DUVALL, A80; the friends of the late WILLIAM READER, A23 to HENRY AUSTIN, E34; FRANCES (MILTON) TROLLOPE, B80, THEODOSIA (GARROW) TROLLOPE, B85, and HARRIET THEODOSIA FISHER (GARROW), C77, to ELIZABETH SHINNER, C71; ISABELLA BOUILLON LANZONI, D29, to ANNA ROFFY, C61; SIR WILLIAM HENRY SEWELL, E58, to JAMES BANSFIELD, E59; Prince Demidoff to GEORGE FREDERIC WAIHINGER, E64; Rosina Buonarotti Simoni to MARY ANNE SALISBURY, F2. B42/ ISABELLA BLAGDEN (in this sector B), cares first for motherless Pen Browning, then for Bice Trollope on the deaths of their mothers from tuberculosis. NDNB entries for Theodosia Trollope, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, whose grandson married first Theodosia's daughter, Bice, then Millais' daughter, Caroline. See Garrow, Trollope, Shinner, Fisher entries and the Villino Trollope photograph below, on which is placed this plaque. Thomas Adolphus Trollope composes the Latin on his mother's tomb, B80/ FRANCES (MILTON) TROLLOPE, on his wife's father's, B108/ JOSEPH GARROW, and on his wife's, B85/ THEODOSIA (GARROW) TROLLOPE.

                  
Villino Trollope, Thomas, Fanny,    The day 13 April 1865/ died in this house/ Theodosia Garrovv-Trollope/ 
Bice, Theodosia                                  who wrote in English with an Italian spirit/ of the struggle and the triumph of Liberty

Stele. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 42/1865. Ambito toscano. Stele in marmo, marmo inciso in lettere capitali in latino e numeri arabi, marmo sporco, posta su basamento in pietra serena, recinto in pietra serena con quattro colonnini spezzati. Possibile intervento di pulitura. [M: A: 166. L: 86. P: 52.; P.s. A: 20. L: 95. P: 57. R:  A: 47.  L: 191. P: 85.]  Iscrizione sepolcrale in latino incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: THEODOSIAE TROLLOPE/ T. ADOLFI TROLLOPE CONIUGIS/ QUOD MORTALE FUIT/ HIC IACET/ OBITUM EIUS FLEVERUNT OMNES/ QUANTUM AUTEM FIERI MERUIT/ VIR EUGUI SCRIPTORES/ SCIT SOLUS/ JOSEFE GARROW ARMr FILIA/ APUD TORQEY IN AGRORUM DEVON ANGLORUM NATA/ FLORENTIAE NOMEN AGENS LUSTRUM/ AD PLURES DIVINAE . . ./ MENSES APRILES A.D. 1865/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Theodosia Trollope, l'Angleterre/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 357 Burial 15/04 Age 46 Rev Pendleton; Marriage GL23774 N° 71+170/6 N° 71 03/04/48 Thomas Adolphus Trollope to Theodosia Garrow at HBM (Hamilton) bride d of Joseph Garrow, Devon, Rev Robbins (E101); Baptism of child GL23775 N° 219/40, Beatrice Catherine Harriet 05/05/53, father Thomas Adolphus Esq, mother Theodosia, Rev O'Neill/ Morning Post/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Trolloape [Trollope]/ Teodosia/ [Joseph Garrow]/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 12 Aprile/ 1865/ Anni 46/ 904/+/ Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, II.150-159, 166-168, Chapter XVIII, pp. 171-173/ N&Q 196. Theodosiae Trollope | T. Adolphi Trollope conjugis | quod mortale fuit | hicjacet. | Obitum ejus fleverunt omnes | quantum autem fieri meruit | vir eheu superstes | scit solus. | Josefi Garrow, Arm. filia | apud Torquay inagro Devon Anglorum nata | Florentiae | nonum agens lustrum | ad plures abiit j 13 die mensis Aprilis, A.D. 1865/ NDNB entries for Theodosia Trollope, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, whose grandson married first Theodosia's daughter, Bice, then Millais' daughter, Caroline/ See Fisher, Garrow, Trollope, Shinner. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. Nulla osta.

Web yields: 'Albert Emil Otto Von Parpart Rrr Des Joho [247] was born on 22 May 1813 in Wibsch Bei Kulmsee, Westpreussen and died on 24 May 1869 in Florenz at age 56. Albert married Germania Adelaide Mathilde Von Bonstetten [248] [MRIN: 149]. Germania was born in 1813 and died on 20 Jun 1883 in Hönegg, Ch at age 70'. Emil Otto Adolf Albert von Parpart, Knight of Malta, was Prussian, who built a fairy tale castle on a lake in Switzerland. There being no heirs the castle is now owned by the Canton of Berne who graciously paid for the tomb's restoration and cleaning. We should like to plant the rambler 'Asta Von Parpart' rose behind the tomb.

       
H�negg Castle on Lake Thun

    

He is a French diplomat present at the Court of Tuscany and a noted bibliophile, at his death a catalogue being published of his books, including Elzevirs, in his extensive library. We recall Elizabeth Barrett Browning speaking in Aurora Leigh of  such a library with Elzevirs.



Lastra. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 9/1871. Ambito toscano. Lastra di marmo bianco, ora sporco, su base di pietra. [M: A: 2; L: 58.5; P: 108.5; P.s. A: 16; L: 70; P: 120.5.] Iscrizione sepolcrale inglese incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: ICI REPOSE LE BARON/ PAUL DE LA VILLESTREUX/ CHARGE D'AFFAIRES DE FRANCE/ EN ITALIE, OFFICIER DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR/ DECEDE A FLORENCE LE 20 SETTEMBRE 1871/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: la Baron Paul de la Villestreux, France, Chargé d'affaire à la legation Fr/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Villestreux (de la)/ Paolo/ Carlo/ Francia/ Firenze/ 20 Settembre/ 1871/ Anni 43/ 1146. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

Christopher Webb Smith and his wife, Annie Jessie MacKenzie Smith, who pre-deceased him, share a most beautiful sarcophagus, sculpted by Pietro Bazzanti, mirrored in that for Sophia Tennant (D18) in Sector D, both of which have been cleaned by Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu. Following Webb Smith's Civil Service in Bengal he also visited South Africa, publishing a book with his paintings of its culture and its wild life, now in our library as a gift from a member. In his retirement in Florence he served loyally with the Anglican Holy Trinity Church. Wikipedia adds that 'From 1849 to 1860 Smith worked on a critique of the 300 paintings in Florence's Pitti Gallery. The entire work was lost with the sinking of the steamer Black Prince off the coast of Portugal'. See Webbs, Anglo-Florentines, pp. 117, 147, 229, 289, 309, 369, 374, 495, 514, 516.

  
Sarcofago. Scultore: Pietro Bazzanti, riprende la tomba di Tennant, Sector D (D22M 610). Sec. XIX, post 9/1862. Ambito toscano. Sarcofago in marmo con disegni e stemma. Intervento di pulitura, Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 2010;

      
                                                                                                                                       Crest, Lion passant regardant

       

A6/ 988/ MARY (AUCRUM) YOUNG/ SCOTLAND
This tomb of yet another Scotswoman, Mary Young, is especially interesting. In its Italian inscription, of the dual language inscriptions such as we see with Robina Wilson and Catherine Jane Penfold, we learn that this widow of the minister of the Scots Church on London Wall came to Pisa where she founded a church and a school, always helping the poor, supported the freeing of Italy, as a scholar spent long hours in archives studying the life of Aonio Paleario, the Italian Renaissance Protestant who was hanged and burned as a heretic in Rome, 1570, publishing a book on him, of which our Mediatheca has one of its two volumes. Count Pietro Guicciardini was among those influenced by Paleario to study and contemplate upon the Bible, and who in turn had to pay the price of first imprisonment, then exile. Mary Young is much loved by her adopted daughter and her Italian son-in-law Carlo Matteucci. The tomb is sculpted with an anchor, a palm branch and an open book, representing both the Bible and her own published work. We have planted a palm at its base to honour her, and Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu has conserved its ironwork and cleaned its marble.

 
 
Cippo. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 9/1867. Ambito toscano. Cippo in marmo scolpito, sul fronte Bibbia e rami di palma, recinzione in pietra serena, ferro e ottone. Intervento di pulitura, Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 2010, [M: A: 56.5; L: 98; P: 284; P.s.: A: 59.5; L: 101; P: 38; R: A: 180; L: 129; P: 50.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in inglese in lettere capitali e numeri arabi, incisa: HOLD [Anchor] FAST/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ MARY YOUNG/ DAUGHTER OF THE LATE/ JOHN STROTHER ANCRUM OF ROXBURGH/ AND WIDOW OF THE REV. ROBERT YOUNG DD MINISTER OF THE/ SCOTS CHURCH LONDON WALL/ ENDOWED WITH SUPERIOR AND REFINED INTELLECT/ FIRM CHARACTER AND ARDENT AFFECTIONS/ SHE WAS BY GOD'S GRACE ENABLED TO SPEND HER WHOLE LIFE IN HIS SERVICE/ AND IN SE. . E . .ING EFFORTS FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS/ HER FAITH WAS SIMPLE AND UNWAVERING/ SUPPORTED BY THIS FAITH AND CHEERED BY THE HOPE OF GLORY/ SHE ENDURED WITH FORTITUDE THE DECAY OF HER EARTHLY/ TABERNACLE AND JOYFULLY WELCOMED THE SUMMONS/ WHICH CALLED HER HENCE/ ON THE 27 DAY OF SEP 1867/ AGED 77/ AMEN. SO LET IT BE // QUI RIPOSANO LE SPOGLIE MORTALI/ DI / MARIA YOUNG/ VISSE MOLTI ANNI IN ITALIA/ RACCOLSE NEGLI ARCHIVI NOTIZIE STORICHE/ CON CUI COMPOSE UN LIBRO ASSAI STIMATO/ LA VITA DI AONIO PALEARIO E I SUOI TEMPI/ DIMORO LONGAMENTE IN PISA DOVE EDIFICO/ UNA CHIESA EVANGELICA E UNA SCUOLA/ SOCCORSE SEMPRE I POVERI AMO LO STUDIO E SI/ . . SE PER IL RISORGIMENTO DELLA LIBERTA ITALIANA/ MORIVA IN FIRENZE ALL'ETA DI 77 ANNI/ IL 27 SETTEMBRE 1867/ FRA LE BRACCIA DELLA INCONSOLABILE FIGLIA/ ALLA SUA CARA MEMORIA CONSACRONO QUESTA PIETRA/ CARLO E ROBINIA MATTEUCCI/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Maria veuve Yung, Edimburg, rentier, fille de John Aucrum/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazioni nel Cimitero di Pinti: Young nata Aucrum/ Vedova Maria/ Giovanni/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 27 Settembre/ 1867/ Anni 76/ 988/ +/ N&Q 103. Mary, d. of the late John Strother Ancrum, of Roxburgh, wd. of Rev Robert Young, minister of the Scots church, London Wall, ob. 27 Sept 1867, a. 77/ See Giuliana Artom Treves, The Golden Ring, pp. 121-3/ Si veda Giuliana Artom Treves, Anglo-Fiorentini di Cento anni fa, p.177. Intervento conservativo su ferro e ottone Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 2008. Intervento di pulitura, Dumitrescu, 5/2010. Intervento di, pulitura, Dumitrescu, 2011.Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. See Mediatheca Fioretta Mazzei acquisitions for Volume I of her book, Aonio Paleario and His Times, 1860, TAU, see also Paolo Moretti's essay on Aonio Paleario.

Mary Young. The Life and Times of Aonio Paleario or a History of the Italian REformers in the Sixteenth Century, Illustrated by Original Letters and Unedited Documents. London: Bell and Baldy, 1860. Volume I.
 

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LA CITTA` E IL LIBRO III
ELOQUENZA SILENZIOSA:
VOCI DEL RICORDO INCISE NEL
CIMITERO 'DEGLI INGLESI',
CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE
3-5 GIUGNO 2004

THE CITY AND THE BOOK III
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
'MARBLE SILENCE, WORDS ON STONE:
FLORENCE'S' ENGLISH CEMETERY',
GABINETTO VIEUSSEUX AND
'ENGLISH CEMETERY', FLORENCE
3-4 JUNE 2004

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INTRODUZIONE/ INTRODUCTION

L’internazionalità di Firenze: il ricordo di Vieusseux nel Cimitero detto ‘degli Inglesi’/ Cosmopolitan Florence: Vieusseux's Memorial in the ‘English' Cemetery Maurizio Bossi, Gabinetto G.P. Vieusseux, Firenze [questa relazione è disponibile soltanto in lingua italiana all'indirizzo http://www.florin.ms/gimel1#bossi]

'Tuoni di bianco silenzio': Il Cimitero ‘degli Inglesi’ come biblioteca e come archivio/ 'Thunders of White Silence': The ‘English Cemetery’ as Library, as Archive Julia Bolton Holloway, Aureo Anello Associazione Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei e Amici del Cimitero 'degli Inglesi' [questa relazione è disponibile soltanto in lingua italiana all'indirizzo http://www.florin.ms/gimel1#holloway]

I CIMITERI DI FIRENZE E LA TRASMISSIONE DEL RICORDO NELL’OTTOCENTO/ THE TRADITION OF MEMORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FLORENCE

Il bello sepolcrale/ The aesthetic of tombs, Carlo Sisi, Galleria d'Arte moderna di Palazzo Pitti, Firenze || Vivere con la morte: iscrizioni funebri e monumenti in Toscana/ Living with Death: Tuscan Entombments in the Nineteenth-Century, Anne O’Brien, National University of Ireland, Galway || La letteratura del ricordo/ The Literature of Memory, Laura Melosi, Università di Macerata || Memoria come benedizione: il Cimitero Ebraico a Firenze/ Memory as Blessing: Florence’s Jewish Cemetery, Dora Liscia Bemporad, Università di Firenze|| Architetture dei cimiteri 'degli Inglesi' e 'agli Allori'/ Architecture of the 'English' and 'Agli Allori' Cemeteries, Giampaolo Trotta

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Ore 15.30/ 3:30 p.m.

I ‘FIORENTINI’ INGLESI E AMERICANI/ ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ‘FLORENTINES’

La tentazione di Eva: 'Paradise Lost' nella scultura di Hiram Powers/ Eve Tempted: 'Paradise Lost' in Hiram Powers' sculpture Katerine Gaja, The British Institute of Florence ||L’iscrizione sulla tomba di Walter Savage Landor/ The inscription on Walter Savage Landor's Tomb Mark Roberts, The British Institute of Florence ||La vedova di Arnold Savage Landor: Libri, corpi e l'incisione di memoria in Firenze/ Arnold Savage Landor’s Widow: Books, Bodies and Imprinting Memory in Florence Allison Levy, Wheaton College||Fanny Trollope, la sua famiglia e la cerchia del Villino Trollope/ Fanny Trollope, her Family and Circle at the Villino Trollope David R. Gilbert, The Middle Temple, London ||Elizabeth Barrett Browning e la Bibbia/ Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Bible Stephen Prickett, The Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University ||La pietra e la parola: Elizabeth Barrett Browning a Firenze/ Stone and Word: Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence Claudia Vitale [disponibile soltanto in lingua italiana all'indirizzo http://www.florin.ms/gimel1#vitale]
 

CENA presso il CIMITERO 'DEGLI INGLESI', Piazzale Donatello, 38/ DINNER in the 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY, Piazzale Donatello 38

Ringraziamo
AGENZIA PER IL TURISMO FIRENZE

Venerdì 4 giugno 2004/ Friday 4 June 2004/ Ore 9.30/ 9:30 a.m.

Una tomba dal nome svanito: Isa Blagden/ A Faded Inscription: Isa Blagden’s Tomb Corinna Gestri, La Nara di Prato [disponibile soltanto in lingua italiana all'indirizzo http://www.florin.ms/gimel1.html#gestri]||Clough, Horner, Zileri: tombe ricordate in un diario inglese inedito/ Tombs Linked in an Unpublished Diary Alyson Price, The British Institute of Florence||William Holman Hunt per la moglie giovane Fanny/ William Holman Hunt for His Young Wife Fanny Patricia O’Connor, The Pre-Raphaelite Society ||L'arte della memoria: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope e la tomba della figlia Mary/ The Art of Memory: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and the Tomb of His Daughter Mary Nic Peeters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel– Judy Oberhausen, San Mateo, California||Notti bianche d'Islanda a Firenze: William Morris e Daniel Willard Fiske/ Northern Lights in Florence: William Morris and Daniel William Fiske Kristín Bragadóttir, The National Library, Reykjavik ||Marmo bianco: la vita e le lettere di Hiram Powers, un inedito di Clara Louise Dentler/ White Marble: The Life and Letters of Hiram Powers in Clara Louise’s Dentler’s Manuscript Jeffrey Begeal, The International Baccalaureate Organization

Ore 14.45/ 2:45 p.m. VISITA A CASA GUIDI/VISIT TO CASA GUIDI

Ore 15.30/ 3:30 p.m.

ALLA RICERCA DI ‘FIORENTINI’ DI ALTRE CULTURE NEL CIMITERO ‘DEGLI INGLESI'/ OTHER 'FLORENTINES' IN THE 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY

Religione, nazione, affari: Il patrimonio della memoria nella comunità svizzera di Firenze/ Religion, Nation, Commerce: Memory as Heritage Among the Swiss in Florence Alessandro Volpi, Università di Pisa || 'Sotto i mirti della dolce Italia': I russi/ 'Beneath the myrtles of sweet Italy': The Russians Michail Talalay, Russian Academy of Sciences || Da Mosca a Firenze: i Kudrjavcev e l’Italia/ From Moscow to Florence: The Kudriavcev and Italy Lucia Tonini, Università 'l'Orientale', Napoli || Le ragioni di una assenza, i motivi di una presenza: Polacchi e Ungheresi nel Cimitero 'degli Inglesi'/ Reasons for absence, motives for their presence: Poles and Hungarians in the 'English Cemetery' Luca Bernardini, Università di Milano || Gli Europei del Nord: dall'Olanda, dalla Scandinavia e dai Paesi baltici/ Northern Europeans: Holland, Scandinavia and the Baltic Countries Asker Pelgrom, Rijkuniversiteit Groningen, Olanda || Due sepolture al Cimitero ‘degli Inglesi’: una traccia per l’attività fiorentina di Félicie de Fauveau/ Two Tombs in the ‘English’ Cemetery: Vestiges of Felicie de Fauveau’s work in Florence Silvia Mascalchi, Istituto Statale d'Arte di Firenze || Robert Davidsohn, un autore della memoria storica di Firenze/ Robert Davidsohn, Historian of Medieval Florence Giuliano Pinto, Università di Firenze.
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Appendix:Poets' Epitaphs in the 'English' Cemetery

SABATO, 5 GIUGNO/ SATURDAY, JUNE 5

VISITA A VILLA LANDOR, FIESOLE, AL CASTELLO DI VINCIGLIATA, AL MONASTERO DI VALLOMBROSA, A BELLOSGUARDO, VILLA BRICHIERI-COLOMBI, VILLA LO STROZZINO

VISIT TO VILLA LANDOR, FIESOLE, VINCIGLIATA CASTLE, VALLOMBROSA MONASTERY, BELLOSGUARDO'S VILLA BRICHIERI-COLOMBI AND VILLA LO STROZZINO

B19H.3

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

THE CITY AND THE BOOK V  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

THE AMERICANS IN FLORENCE'S 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY, INTRODUCTION

SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2008

FLORENCE'S LYCEUM CLUB AND THE 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY

Introduction
Go to I. Abolitionists in the 'English' Cemetery
         II. Hiram Powers, Kate Field, Amasa Hewins
         III. Joel Tanner Hart
         IV. William Wetmore Story
         V. Collectors and Visitors

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A hundred Americans in the years 1828-1877 were buried in the Swiss-owned so-called 'English' Cemetery in Florence. Many were deeply involved in the Abolition of Slavery. Several were sculptors of note. Several amassed fine libraries in Florence which they then willed to entities in America. See the web essays http://www.florin.ms/americantombs.html and http://www.florin.ms/americanappeal.html. This year we celebrate the 180th anniversary of our monumental cemetery with the fifth City and Book International Conference, 11 October 2008, to be held on the Americans buried in the so-called 'English' Cemetery and their friends. The events will take place at the Lyceum Club, in the Palazzo Giugni, Via degli Alfani 48, next to the University of Florence, and at the 'English Cemetery', with lodging at the Villa Agape (click for maps) for participants.

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IL CIMITERO EVANGELICO PORTA A' PINTI A FIRENZE
180° ANNIVERSARIO

FLORENCE'S SWISS-OWNED ENGLISH CEMETERY
AND ITS HUNDRED AMERICANS
CITY AND BOOK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE V

                                                                                                              Grenville Temple Southwood Smith      
                Thomas Browne                Elizabeth Moore                                                      Samuel Reginald  Routh    William Somerville   Isaac Lumley
Bentinck Yelverton Cecilia Yelverton   Jemima Kellett     Elizabeth Barrett Browning  Willim Henry Beck Sofia Golokoff Robert Hart J.P. Vieusseux Frederic Goodban
Anne Alice Holt  James Walters Redman                         Severin Goedtke  Ivan Leontieff Lewitzky                       Emma Gamgee  Thomas Williams Trotman

Of these William Henry Beck and Robert Hart, with tombs in pietra serena, are American, while Thomas Trotman, M.D., is from the West Indies. Arthur Hugh Clough (his tomb invisilbe here) spent his youth in America. Joel T. Hart sculpts Southwood Smith's tomb and obelisque. William Wetmore Story designs Theodore Parker's tomb.  Emily Dickinson writes at least two poems about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's death and tomb. James Lorimer Graham dies in 1876 and so is not yet present.


PROGRAM

Friday, 10 October 2008: The Celebration of the 180th Anniversary of the Cimitero Evangelico Porta a' Pinti
Visit to the English Cemetery, Piazzale Donatello, 38, 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Salone Brunelleschi, 6:00, Lectures on 'English' Cemetery by Pastore Mario Marziale, Julia Bolton Holloway
Salone Brunelleschi, 8:00 p.m. Buffet with its Owner Members of the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church
Julia Bolton Holloway's presentation in English and Italian. The Salone Brunelleschi is in the Palazzo di Parte Guelfa in the historic centre of Florence, off the Piazza della Repubblica to its left hand side, Piazzeta di Parte Guelfa 1, at the end of Via Pelliceria, going up the outdoor stairs.

Saturday, 11 October 2008: 'The Hundred Americans in the Swiss-owned 'English' Cemetery' 

Lyceum Club, Via degli Alfani 48
Presentations in English

Introduction

Welcoming Address. Julia Bolton Holloway, President, Aureo Anello
'On American Families in Two Florentine Cemeteries'. Grazia Gobbi Sica, New York University

I. The Swiss-owned 'English' Cemetery and Anti-Slavery http://www.florin.ms/CBVa.html

'Edmonia Lewis and the Boston of Italy'. Marilyn Richardson, Independent Scholar
'Theodore Parker's Graves'. Sally Mitchell, Temple University
'Villino Trollope, Piazza dell'Independenza: Incubator for the Independence of the African-American'. Brenda Ayres, Liberty University
'Social Criticism in Richard Hildreth's The White Slave, 1852'. Sirpa Salenius, Universty of New Haven in Florence

II. Hiram Powers, Kate Field and Amasa Hewins http://www.florin.ms/CBVb.html

'The 'English' Cemetery and Historical Reconstruction: Liberating Hiram Powers' 'Greek Slave' to Return to Florence'. Roger J. Crum, University of Dayton
'Hiram Powers, Kate Field and the Italian Risorgimento'. Melissa Dabakis, Kenyon College
'Kate Field'. Francesca Limberti
'Fortunate Associations: The American Painter Amasa Hewins (1795-1855) and Florence'. John F. McGuigan, Independent Scholar

III. Joel Tanner Hart http://www.florin.ms/CBVc.html

'Hiram Powers and Joel Tanner Hart: Two Sculptors, a Voyage from Cincinnati Ohio to Florence Italy and the Friendship that Developed'. Ted Gantz, Sculptor and Collector
'Joel Tanner Hart: A Kentucky Sculptor in Florence'. David Dearinger, Boston Athenaeaum.
'"Daily Visiting My Studio": Joel Tanner Hart and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World'. Robert P. Murray, University of Kentucky. 
'From Florence to Frankfort: Joel Hart's Re-interment'. Donald Williamson

IV. William Wetmore Story http://www.florin.ms/CBVd.html

'The Significance of Florence in the Life of William Wetmore Story and his Family'. Kathleen Lawrence, George Washington University
'A Storied Life: Marble Fauns, Angels, and Cemeteries: William Wetmore Story and Friends in Italy'. Elise Madeleine Ciregna, University of Delaware/ Forest Hills Cemetery

V. American Collectors and Visitors http://www.florin.ms/CBVe.html

'Albert Jenkins Jones: The New York Times' Sculpture Critic in Italy, 1860-1876'. Nancy Austin, Independent Scholar
'James Lorimer Graham, American Consul, 1832-1876, U.S. Consul in Florence.' Jeffrey Begeal, Independent Scholar
'Tracking Enigma - A Grave with a Nickname in the 'English' Cemetery'. Margot Fortunato Galt, University of Minnesota and Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota
'Jennie's Gift: The Early Purchases of French Imprints for the Daniel Willard Fiske Petrarch Collection'. Patrick J. Stevens, Curator of the Fiske Collections and Selector for Jewish Studies, Cornell University 
'Anne Mac Cracken'. Richard Mac Cracken, Independent Scholar
'Louisa Catherine Adams Kuhn, Florentine Adventures, 1859-1860'. Robert J. Robertson, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
 

Exhibition: Bust of Hiram Powers' Greek Slave, Rare Books
'English' Cemetery, P.le Donatello, 38



Friday, 10 October 2008: The Celebration of the 180th Anniversary of the Cimitero Evangelico Porta a' Pinti

Nella memoria di Giorgio La Pira, Fioretta Mazzei, Maurizio Bossi, Marchese Gabriel Venturi Ginori Lisci y Borbon, Marchese Vieri Torrigiani Malaspina

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GLI ATTI SI TROVANO A                https://www.florin.ms/CBXi.html                  PROCEEDINGS AT                   https://www.florin.ms/CBXe.html       Register and request Zoom invitation from Julia Bolton Holloway, juliananchoress@gmail.com