It is full of emotion and thought concentrated on the subject, and commingled by imagination to produce beauty.

And whenever this is the case, as in the books which treat of Caponsacchi and Pompilia, we are rejoiced by poetry.

In their lofty matter of thought and feeling, in their simplicity and nobleness of spiritual beauty, poetry is dominant.

In them also his intellectual powers, and his imaginative and passionate powers, are fused into one fire.

Nor is the presentation of Guido Franceschini under two faces less powerful, or that of the Pope, in his meditative silence.