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Identifier: countryofringb00trev (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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me of her foster parents in the Via Vittoria. Herstay in the convent does not appear to have been morethan a month. The convent was an institution forwomen who had lived, and had repented of, an evillife. It is said to have been founded in 1615, when itsfull title was II Conservatorio di S. Croce della Penitenza.It is situated across the river in the Via della Lungara,a street well known to diligent tourists, for it containsthe Palazzo Corsini, which is one of the unavoidablesights of Rome. The popular name of Le Scaletteor The Little Stairways is derived from the fact thatin front of the building is a long and unusual plat-form, approached by a small stair at either end. Onthe platform are two doors, one leading into the chapeland the other to the Penitentiary. The essential partof the building, the fagade that looks upon the street,the chapel itself, the platform and the little stairs areall unchanged, and, as Pompilia saw them long ago, so the traveller sees them now (Plate 8). 126
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Le Scalette The institution was enlarged in 1854, but the alter-ation only affected the hinder part of the building, asthe tablet in the wall that abuts on the Via Penitenzabears witness, and as a sketch of the convent in Faldasmap (Plate 105) will show. The name of the place haschanged to the gentler title of the Convent of theGood Shepherd, and thus it is that it now appears uponthe maps of Rome as Buon Pastore (see Plate 16). The convent is a very old, dismal, prison-like build-ing, in a frowzy quarter and a none too cheerful street.It seems to have been forgotten by the world and fromcallous neglect to have shrivelled into a state of hebe-tude and decay. It is woefully shabby, while the generalcolour of its walls is the sickly greyish-yellow of a fadedleaf. The long platform in front of the building is ofbrick, which bricks are slowly crumbling into the road.The little stone stairs of seven steps, on one side, andten on the other, are so worn and cracked and chippedby the lapse of

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