Casa Guidi
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Casa Guidi is the fifteenth-century patrician house in Piazza San Felice, 8, near the south end of the Pitti Palace in Florence, in which the piano nobile apartment was inhabited by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning between 1847 and Mrs Browning's death in 1861. After their son Pen's death, the apartment was bought by several Browning enthusiasts. By that time, Casa Guidi was in poor shape, and the apartment with hardly any furniture or paintings. The Browning Society in New York restored it, before giving it to Eton College for further work. Today, it is part of The Eton College Collections, but is administered by the Landmark Trust, who also look after the house in Rome where Keats died.
Casa Guidi is open to the public for 3:00–6:00 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from April to November. There is no admission fee, but donations are welcome. It is also available for holiday lets booked through the Landmark Trust.
