Like S.Catherine of Bologna she embroidered well and painted miraculously, and she once healed a leprosy by licking it.

She died in 1607.
The old English Cemetery, as it is usually called--the Protestant Cemetery, as it should be called--is an oval garden of death in the Piazza Donatello, at the end of the Via di Pinti and the Via Alfieri, rising up from the boulevard that surrounds the northern half of Florence.

(The new Protestant Cemetery is outside the city on the road to the Certosa.) I noticed, as I walked beneath the cypresses, the grave of Arthur Hugh Clough, the poet of "Dipsychus," who died here in Florence on November 13th, 1861; of Walter Savage Landor, that old lion (born January 30th, 1775; died September 17th, 1864), of whom I shall say much more in a later chapter; of his son Arnold, who was born in 1818 and died in 1871; and of Mrs.Holman Hunt, who died in 1866.

But the most famous grave is that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who lies beneath a massive tomb that bears only the initials E.B.B.and the date 1861.

"Italy," wrote James Thomson, the poet of "The City of Dreadful Night," on hearing of Mrs.Browning's death, "Italy, you hold in trust Very sacred human dust.".