BROWNING, ROBERT,
cosmopolitan in sympathies, English by his art, 1, 2;
his birth, 3;
likeness to his mother, 4 n.;
character of his home, 5;
boyhood, 5, 6;
early sense of rhythm, 7;
reads Shelley, Keats, and Byron, 8 f.;
journey to St Petersburg, 14;
first voyage to Italy, 26 f.;
second voyage to Italy, 61;
correspondence with E.B. Barrett, 78;
marriage, 81;
settlement in Italy, 84;
friendships and society at Florence, 84 f.;
Italian politics, 88;
Italian scenery, 91;
Italian painting, 98 f.;
and music, 103 f.;
religion, 110 f.;
his interpretation of _In a Balcony_, 145 n.;
death of Mrs Browning, 147;
return to London, 148;
society, 150;
summer sojourns in France, 153 f., 202 f.;
in the Alps, 216;
death of Miss Egerton-Smith, 216;
Italy once more, 220;
Asolo and Venice, 231 f.;
death, 234.