Memories are good, but good usage of them is the fine power.

The _mise-en-scene_ is then excellent, and Browning was always careful to make it right, fitting and enlivening.

Nowhere is this better done than in the Introduction where he finds the book on a stall in the Square of San Lorenzo, and describes modern Florence in his walk from the Square past the Strozzi, the Pillar and the Bridge to Casa Guidi on the other side of the Arno opposite the little church of San Felice.

During the walk he read the book through, yet saw everything he passed by.

The description will show how keen were his eyes, how masterly his execution.
That memorable day, (June was the month, Lorenzo named the Square) I leaned a little and overlooked my prize By the low railing round the fountain-source Close to the statue, where a step descends: While clinked the cans of copper, as stooped and rose Thick-ankled girls who brimmed them, and made place For marketmen glad to pitch basket down, Dip a broad melon-leaf that holds the wet, And whisk their faded fresh.