I tried to add the rest of my comment to yliang's report on Castelnuovo di Ponto, but the website wouldn't accept what it saw as a second comment. Here it is, if you are interested:
[Comment continued] Pompilia was sent to a convent in Rome before being returned to her parents’ house, where she gave birth to a son on 18th December. On 3rd January 1698, Guido and four accomplices murdered Pompilia and her parents. On February 22nd Guido was beheaded in the Piazza del Popolo, Rome, and the four accomplices were hanged.
Browning believed that Pompilia and Caponsacchi were innocent. The whole of the poem is available online (although as it’s twice as long as “Paradise Lost” it wouldn’t be good to try to read it all online):
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/2/179/1098/frameset.html
There is also a very interesting book on all the places mentioned in the story: ‘The Country of “The Ring and the Book”’ by Sir Frederick Treves, Cassell & Co, 1913 (reprinted 1929).
Posted: 2009-05-05 07:16 AM
Hi Tony,
thanks for your kind words in my guestbook. I am not really satisfied with the 'quality' of these old pics but felt I would need an inducement to complete or replace them by new better ones. :)
Hope so much you're feeling on the mend today in spite of another sleepless night!(?)
Best regards - Petra
Posted: 2009-05-02 07:21 AM
Hi Tony,
know there have been other plans for today. But I really hope you will have a good day though with fine results and noticeable progress!
Best wishes to you - Petra
Posted: 2009-04-29 11:01 PM
so sorry that you won't be able to travel on Saturday - but for sure, you will have a fantastic voyage at a later date this year!!!
GET WELL SOON! - Petra
Many thanks for your recent comments on my my photos from Lake Como. I was not very lucky with weather, but I really enjoyed my weekend there. Views are always spectacular at the lake.
Posted: 2009-04-24 12:06 AM
I am concerned about the recently aggravated problems. Hope so much you will be well again soon - you know: Greece is waiting!
All the best - Petra
Posted: 2009-04-23 08:20 AM
Tony, I agree with you that the children appreciate their earned money. Often the parents themselves ruining their children by giving them too much money. However, it is not to rule. Yours.
basia
Posted: 2009-04-22 11:41 PM
I'm sorry, that have worked in such a young age to earn money. That my photos have caused unpleasant memories. I hope that after years of looking at the past without the grief of the fate.
Basia
Posted: 2009-04-21 01:22 PM
Tony lives in a beautiful country.
My country (Poland), it is beautiful. Thank you for your kind words about the photos.
Yours,
Basia
