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Title: The country of The ring and the book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Treves, Frederick, Sir, 1853-1923
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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hard by,in the long white lazar house of Saint Anna; butno such house had any existence, while the entry in theregister of the Church of San Lorenzo in Lucina (givenat the end of this volume) shows that she died in thestreet which had been familiar to her from babyhood. Guido and his bravoes could hardly have clatteredout of sight before neighbours and passers-by pouredinto the house, stumbling in the dark over the deadbodies by the door, slipping on the clotted blood inthe passage, and falling against the overturned furniturewhich blocked their way. They would be guided bythe feeble moans which came from one black cornerin the little room. The first person apparently to enter was one GiuseppedAndillo. I think he must have been the locksmithwho lived next door. He picked Pompilia up fromthe ground where she lay in utter weakness becauseof her wounds. She had her head upon the legs ofSignor Pietro Comparini, who was already dead. Aconfessor and a surgeon were immediately sent for. 76 I
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The Death of Pompilia Pompilia was placed upon a bed, probably upon thevery bed underneath which she had crept when shesaw Guido coming along the passage with a lanternand a dripping dagger. She made confession to thePrincipal of the Greek College while she was beingheld up in the arms of Giuseppe dAndillo, because,as he says, she could neither rise nor lie down.The Greek College was—and still is—attached to theChurch of St. Atanasio, in the Strada Paolina, whichchurch is but a few doors from the scene of themurder. The principal of the college appears to havebeen the Abate Liberato Barberito, Doctor of Theology.He was a foreigner, having come from Monopoli (nearBrindisi), in the Kingdom of Naples. The abate wasdeeply impressed with Pompilias Christian resignation,with the generosity of her forgiveness, with the tender-ness of her conscience, as well as with her heroism.Indeed, he says that he had never observed the dyingwith like sentiments. Besides these two, no fewer than eight

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