Narrative poem · 1868-1869

The Ring and the Book

by Robert Browning

Browning's twelve-book epic retells a seventeenth-century Roman murder trial through the conflicting voices of the town, the lawyers, the killer, his victim and the Pope.

Contents · 12 parts

• I. The Ring and the Bookabout 1420 lines
• II. Half-Romeabout 1550 lines
• III. The Other Half-Romeabout 1700 lines
• IV. Tertium Quidabout 1640 lines
• V. Count Guido Franceschiniabout 2060 lines
• VI. Giuseppe Caponsacchiabout 2110 lines
• VII. Pompiliaabout 1850 lines
• VIII. Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis, Pauperum Procuratorabout 1820 lines
• IX. Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius, Fisci et Rev. Cam. Apostol. Advocatusabout 1580 lines
• X. The Popeabout 2130 lines
• XI. Guidoabout 2430 lines
• XII. The Book and the Ringabout 870 lines

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