Ever since my first trip to Florence I had always wanted to look around Casa Guidi, the home of the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband Robert. I was now getting the chance to actually stay there. I was thrilled. I decided to find out as much as I could about this famous couple and how they ended up living in Florence.
Casa Guidi was the name Robert and Elizabeth gave the apartment they rented on the first floor of | the Palazzo Guidi. It stands on the Via Maggio in the Piazza San Felice, not far from the Palazzo Pitti. They lived here from 1847 to 1861 and during this time they wrote some of their finest poetry. But how had they ended up living in this beautiful city?