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Robert Browning

1812 to 1889 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Robert Browning across 3 places, from 1834 to 1889. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Robert Browning was documented, and when

1834 to 1835period
St Petersburgattested “In 1834, he accompanied the Chevalier George de Benkhausen, the Russian consul-general, on a brief visit to St Petersburg and began Paracelsus, which was published in 1835.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Browning
1845year
Wimpole Streetattested “In 1845, Browning met the poet Elizabeth Barrett, six years his senior, who lived as a semi-invalid in her father's house in Wimpole Street, London.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Browning
12 December 1889exact date
Veniceattested “Browning died at his son's home Ca' Rezzonico in Venice on 12 December 1889.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Browning

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Places Robert Browning is documented in

St Petersburg1 presence · 1834Venice1 presence · 1889
Wimpole Street1 presence · 1845

Other places tied to Robert Browning in the record

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1838year
Italymentioned “In 1838, he visited Italy looking for background for Sordello, a long poem in heroic couplets, presented as the imaginary biography of the Mantuan bard spoken of by Dante in the Divine Comedy, canto 6 of Purgatory, set against a backgrou…” source: Wikipedia: Robert Browning
12 September 1846exact date
Italymentioned “They began regularly corresponding and gradually a romance developed between them, leading to their marriage and journey to Italy (for Elizabeth's health) on 12 September 1846.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Browning
1850year
Florencementioned “Some years later, probably in 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti came across it in the Reading Room of the British Museum and wrote to Browning, then in Florence, to ask if he was the author.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Browning
1853 to 1855period
Florencementioned “In Florence, probably from early in 1853, Browning worked on the poems that eventually composed his two-volume Men and Women, for which he is now well known, although in 1855, when they were published, they made relatively little impact.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Browning
1861year
Florencementioned “In 1861, Elizabeth died in Florence.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Browning

Documented at the same place, the same year

Ivan TurgenevUniversity of Saint Petersburg · 1834Karl Ernst von BaerUniversity of Saint Petersburg · 1834Karl MarxUnited Kingdom · 1845Frédéric BastiatUnited Kingdom · 1845Mary Ann NicholsUnited Kingdom · 1845

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