Fra Lippo Lippi
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Robert Browning
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Fra Lippo Lippi
By Robert Browning
[Florentine painter, 1412-69]
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave!
You need not clap your torches to my face.
Zooks, what's to blame? you think you see a monk!
What, 'tis past midnight, and you go the rounds,
And here you catch me at an alley's end
Where sportive ladies leave their doors ajar?
The Carmine's my cloister: hunt it up,
Do,—harry out...
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Fra Lippo Lippi key Facts
Writer: Robert Browning ( 1812-89)
Published date: 1855
Genre: Dramatic Monologue
Theme: Philosophy of Life; The Function of Art and Painting.
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Fra Lippo Lippi Summary
"Fra Lippo Lippi" is another notable dramatic monologue by Robert Browning. This poem was published in Men and Women in 1855. Each of its lines follows iambic pentameter. It is a biographical poem. Once Robert Browning visited Florence, Italy. There he saw a painting of the Virgin Mary that fascinated him. He thought of studying the painter's life. That painter was Lippo Lippi. Browning writes "F...
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