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勃朗宁对意大利历史和文化很感兴趣,特别是对意大利文艺复兴深有研究,写了一系列以意大利文艺复兴为背景的戏剧独白诗。《圣普拉西德教堂的主教吩咐后事》就是其中的一篇名作,它为我们栩栩如生地再现了文艺复兴时代的世俗性的风貌。英国维多利亚时代著名评论家罗斯金评论这首诗说:我用三十页的篇幅来说明文艺复兴中期,而这首诗只用三十行就说明了几乎同样多的内容;我不知道还有哪首诗或哪篇文章能像这首诗那样,告诉我们这么多文艺复兴精神——文艺复兴的“世俗性、自相矛盾、自满、伪善、对自身的无知、以及对艺术、对奢华、和对优雅的拉丁文的酷爱”。美国学者朗鲍姆补充道:因为罗斯金对文艺复兴抱有贬意,不像勃朗宁那么肯定文艺复兴的积极意识,所以除了罗斯金列举的特征之外,还应该加上:“勃勃生机和进取精神”。
Browning was very interested in the history and culture of Italy. He especially studied the Italian Renaissance and wrote a series of dramatic monologues in the background of the Italian Renaissance. “Episcopal Order of the Church of St. Prahere” is one of the masterpiece, it vividly reproduced the secular character of the Renaissance. Commenting on the poem, Sir Ruskin, a famous British Victorian critic, said: “I used thirty pages to illustrate the mid-Renaissance, and this poem illustrates almost the same amount in only thirty rows; I do not know Which verse or article can tell us so much, like the poem, that Renaissance’s ”secular, contradictory, complacent, hypocritical, ignorance of itself, as well as of the art, the luxury, And love of elegant Latin. “ American scholar Raumbum added: Because of Ruskin’s devaluation of the Renaissance, unlike Browning so affirmed the positive awareness of the Renaissance, so apart from the features of Ruskin cited, it should be added: ”vitality And entrepreneurial spirit. "