Casa Guidi - 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard

Question

Note to players: Description acceptable. An advertisement for a poem about this place quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Threnody” and claims “The future of Italy shall not be disinherited.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name or describe this Florentine building. The speaker describes hearing a child singing “O bella libertà, O bella!” near a church just outside the title “Windows” of this home of two authors in that poem.

ANSWER: Casa Guidi [accept “Casa Guidi Windows”; accept descriptions referring to Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s house] (“Casa Guidi Windows” is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.)

[10m] Members of this profession, including one who smiles upon a young apprentice he “found among the sheep,” are repeatedly referenced in “Casa Guidi Windows.” A member of this profession states “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” in a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning addressing “my Lucrezia.”

ANSWER: artists [accept painters; accept sculptors]

[10e] The narrator of “Casa Guidi Windows” lists this author between Boccaccio and Petrarch as a response to “What’s Italy?” Robert Browning titled his poem “Sordello” for a troubadour who appears in Purgatorio from this author’s The Divine Comedy.

ANSWER: Dante Alighieri [or Dante Alighieri]

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