Particolare Collegio Ferdinando (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)In 1846, from October to April, the couple of English poets, Elisabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning lived in Pisa, together with their little dog Flush (see Virginia Woolf at the Nettuno hotel), in an apartment of the former Collegio Ferdinando.
Cit. Here we are, all alone, in a house built by Vasari, a stone's throw from the Leaning Tower and the Duomo, enjoying absolute isolation and planning the works suitable to the same. I am very happy and I am very well... we have attended a Mass at the Campo Santo and made the due pilgrimage to Palazzo Lanfranchi, to retrace the footsteps of Byron and Shelley... (...) This city is beautiful and extremely restful: 'Makes you fall asleep in the sun', as Dickens said.
(Elizabeth B.B. in a letter to Richard H. Horne; Pisa, 4 December 1846)
