Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper

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Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper is a short collection of English poems by Robert Browning, published in 1876. The collection marked Browning's first collection of short pieces for more than twelve years, and was well-received. The title poem, which ostensibly discusses the life and works of 15th Century Italian painter Giacomo Pacchiarotti, is actually a thinly-veiled attack on Browning's own critics, and many other pieces in the collection take the same tone.

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  • Prologue
  • Of Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper
  • At the “Mermaid”
  • House
  • Shop
  • Pisgah-Sights
  • Fears and Scruples
  • Natural Magic
  • Magical Nature
  • Bifurcation
  • Numpholeptos
  • Appearances
  • St. Martin’s Summer
  • Hervé Riel
  • A Forgiveness
  • Cenciaja
  • Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial
  • Epilogue

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