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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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special attention to this wooden railand to the obvious antiquity of it. It must have stoodhere when Pompilia and her companion were broughtbefore the magistrate to answer the charge laid againstthem by Count Guido. On this very bar—it is hardlytoo much to assume—Pompilias actual hands haverested. As she turned towards the bench her profilewould stand out against the sunny window as does theface of a saint painted, in the old fashion, upon a back-ground of gold. At the foot of the stair that leads from the wellcourt to the public hall is a heavy door. This is thedoor of the prison to which the little countess and thepriest were dragged after the business in the justicesroom had been disposed of. There is nothing to leadone to think that these prisons have undergone anychange since 1697. The cells are small, and have allthe aspect of sober age. The warder spoke of them asif they had existed from all time. There are cells formale prisoners on one side and for female culprits on 228
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Castelnuovo the other. At the time of my visit there were sixprisoners in this small jail; so, although the town isso simple and childlike, and although in the countryround about every prospect pleases, yet there are stillevil-doers in Castelnuovo, even if they have not arrivedthere in a calesse from Arezzo, smothered with dust, andspeechless from fatigue. There is more to be seen of Pompilias prison fromanother part of the town. At the back of the Preturais a trivial square called the Piazza Garibaldi (Plate 101).It is a very meagre piazza, with an unmistakable sugges-tion of squalor about it. It is occupied by a few oldcottages, disposed in the agreeable disorder which ischaracteristic of Castelnuovo. One side of the squareis taken up from end to end by the great building. Itlooks even more formidable from this piazza than itdoes from the front; for it presents itself as an untidyprecipice, made up of the exposed rock of the hill,surmounted by a wall of rough stone or of brick, whic

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