Fra Leppo Lippo
Fra Lippo Lippi Introduction
Fra Lippo Lippi " is probably one of the " lyrics with more music and painting " mentioned by Robert Browning in a letter to Milsand of February, 1853. In April of the same year, Elizabeth Barrett describes him engaged in " digging at Vasari ", whose Le Vite de ' Pittori was probably the main source for the poem and many others about Italian painting.
" Fra Lippo Lippi " has always been one of the best known and most famous poems of Browning, for several reasons. It is arguably a paradigm of dramatic monologue, with a speaker identified in the title, and an interlocutor identified in his social relationship to the speaker.
The poem contains some of Browning 's favourite motifs : Renaissance Italy and Italian painters, love, and, above all, the conditions of the artistic creation. " Fra Lippo Lippi " also stages one of the most loquacious characters of Men and Women. An exuberant monk slightly inebriated by the crisp air which " turns / the unaccustomed head like Chianti wine ", Fra Lippo Lippi presents us in nuce his world-view, his aspirations and his frustrations, in a tone of voice ranging from the mocking to the melancholy and from the bragging to the lyrical.
A brief biography
Filippo Lippi (Filippo di Tommaso di Lippo), Florentine painter, was brought up as an unwanted child in the Carmelite friary of the Carmine, where he took his vows in 1421. Unlike the Dominican Fra Angelico, however, Lippi was a reluctant friar and had a scandalous love affair with a nun, Lucrezia Buti, who bore his son Filippino and a daughter Alessandra.
His biography (romantically embroidered to include capture by pirates) is one of the most colourful in Vasari 's Lives and has given rise to the picture of a worldly Renaissance artist, rebelling against the discipline of the Church.
Dramatic monologue and explanation
Robert browning is perhaps the greatest master of dramatics in poetry in English literature.
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Fra Lippo Lippi " is probably one of the " lyrics with more music and painting " mentioned by Robert Browning in a letter to Milsand of February, 1853. In April of the same year, Elizabeth Barrett describes him engaged in " digging at Vasari ", whose Le Vite de ' Pittori was probably the main source for the poem and many others about Italian painting.
" Fra Lippo Lippi " has always been one of the best known and most famous poems of Browning, for several reasons. It is arguably a paradigm of dramatic monologue, with a speaker identified in the title, and an interlocutor identified in his social relationship to the speaker.
The poem contains some of Browning 's favourite motifs : Renaissance Italy and Italian painters, love, and, above all, the conditions of the artistic creation. " Fra Lippo Lippi " also stages one of the most loquacious characters of Men and Women. An exuberant monk slightly inebriated by the crisp air which " turns / the unaccustomed head like Chianti wine ", Fra Lippo Lippi presents us in nuce his world-view, his aspirations and his frustrations, in a tone of voice ranging from the mocking to the melancholy and from the bragging to the lyrical.
A brief biography
Filippo Lippi (Filippo di Tommaso di Lippo), Florentine painter, was brought up as an unwanted child in the Carmelite friary of the Carmine, where he took his vows in 1421. Unlike the Dominican Fra Angelico, however, Lippi was a reluctant friar and had a scandalous love affair with a nun, Lucrezia Buti, who bore his son Filippino and a daughter Alessandra.
His biography (romantically embroidered to include capture by pirates) is one of the most colourful in Vasari 's Lives and has given rise to the picture of a worldly Renaissance artist, rebelling against the discipline of the Church.
Dramatic monologue and explanation
Robert browning is perhaps the greatest master of dramatics in poetry in English literature.
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