SD1528. Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi to Contessa Cotenna del Rosso

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 277 (in part).

Firenze

2 December 1851

Mandai due lettere una dopo l’altra a Massei …

I submit to those who are more powerful than we are, not without a certain grievance, however, that no voice, no Italian voice has been raised, the only one came from England, from a woman, Miss Browning, she did that through a remarkable poem of hers whose title is Casa Guidi Windows. If she liked, she could see some lines translated in the third issue of the English writings published here, in Florence. …

Text: Lettere di F.D. Guerrazzi, ed. Giosuè Carducci (Livorno, 1880), I, 301–302.

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