Fra Lippo Lippi

Introduction

Fra Lippo Lippi " is probably one of the " lyrics with more music and painting " mentioned by Robert Browning in a letter to Milsand of February, 1853. In April of the same year, Elizabeth Barrett describes him engaged in " digging at Vasari ", whose Le Vite de' Pittori was probably the main source for the poem and many others about Italian painting.

" Fra Lippo Lippi " has always been one of the best known and most famous poems of Browning, for several reasons. It is arguably a paradigm of dramatic monologue, with a speaker identified in the title, and an interlocutor identified in his social relationship to the speaker.

The poem contains some of Browning's favourite motifs : Renaissance Italy and Italian painters, love, and, above all, the conditions of the artistic creation. " Fra Lippo Lippi " also stages one of the most loquacious characters of Men and Women. An exuberant monk slightly inebriated by the crisp air which "......

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Title: Fra Leppo Lippo
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