Nowhere is this pictorial and individualising part of Browning's genius more delighted with its work.

Every description is written by a lover of humanity, and with joy.
Nor is he less vivid in the _mise-en-scene_ in which he places this multitude of personages.

In _Half-Rome_ we mingle with the crowd between Palazzo Fiano and Ruspoli, and pass into the church of Lorenzo in Lucina where the murdered bodies are exposed.

The mingled humours of the crowd, the various persons and their characters are combined with and enhanced by the scenery.

Then there is the Market Place by the Capucin convent of the Piazza Barberini, with the fountains leaping; then the _Reunion_ at a palace, and the fine fashionable folk among the mirrors and the chandeliers, each with their view of the question; then the Courthouse, with all its paraphernalia, where Guido and Caponsacchi plead; then, the sketches, as new matters turn up, of the obscure streets of Rome, of the country round Arezzo, of Arezzo itself, of the post road from Arezzo to Rome and the country inn near Rome, of the garden house in the suburbs, of the households of the two advocates and their different ways of living; of the Pope in his closet and of Guido in the prison cell; and last, the full description of the streets and the Piazza del Popolo on the day of the execution--all with a hundred vivifying, illuminating, minute details attached to them by this keen-eyed, observant, questing poet who remembered everything he saw, and was able to use each detail where it was most wanted.