“Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy".”

— Robert Browning , Men and Women

"De Gustibus", ii.
Men and Women (1855)
Context: Italy, my Italy!
Queen Mary's saying serves for me
(When fortune's malice
Lost her Calais):
"Open my heart, and you will see
Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'"

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English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889

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