'The Ring and the Book.' Castelnuovo. Photographer: Griffin, William Hall
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards a group of houses, with the inn in the centre, where, in Browning's poem, Caponsacchi and Pompilia were captured..
'The Ring and the Book.' Arezzo. Interior of Cathedral. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the high altar and pulpit in the cathedral church of San Pietro Maggiore. The altar-piece or retable seen in close-up in print 55 is visible behind the altar.
'The Ring and the Book.' Arezzo. Piazza Vasari. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the piazza, with the church of Santa Maria della Pieve on the left. On the right can be seen part of the arcade designed by Vasari.
'The Ring and the Book.' Florence. View along the Via Martelli from the Piazza del Duomo to Riccardi Palace. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the Via Martelli, with the Riccardi Palace (Palazzo Medici) in the left background at the start of the Via Larga. The street is crowded with pedestrians, who are captured reasonably sharply in this 'instantaneous' view.
'The Ring and the Book,' 'Fra Lippo Lippi,' etc. Florence. Riccardi Palace and via Maria. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the façade of the Riccardi Palace (Palazzo Medici): '…The very short Via Gori is seen further up on the right, where Browning bought the square old yellow book.'
'The Ring and the Book.' Petrarch's birthplace, Arezzo. Photographer: Griffin, William Hall
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the house from the street: 'This is on the hill top close by the Cathedral and just behind the Governor's Palace…'
'The Ring and the Book.' Florence. A second-hand shop, Via Strozzi. Photographer: Griffin, William Hall
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the street towards a shop-front, with a collection of second-hand clothes hanging in front. With a note in Hall Griffin's hand: 'The Mercato Vecchio and the adjoining streets through which Browning walked from the Piazza of S. Lorenzo to...
'The Ring and the Book.' Rome. The 'Capella', New Prisons. Photographer: Griffin, William Hall
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'This cell in the old Papal prison receives its name from the altar, and is that in which the condemned prisoner passed his last hours, accompanied by his comforters…'