Chapter 11

1880-1888

"Les Charmettes"--Venetian Days--Dr. Hiram Corson--The Browning Society--Oxford Honors Browning--Katherine DeKay Bronson-- Honors from Edinburgh--Visit to Professor Masson--Italian Recognition--Nancioni--The Goldoni Sonnet--At St. Moritz-- In Palazzo Giustiniani--"Ferishtah's Fancies"--Companionship with His Son--Death of Milsand--Letters to Mrs. Bronson-- DeVere Gardens--Palazzo Rezzonico--Sunsets from the Lido-- Robert Barrett Browning's Gift in Portraiture 238