Where ghosts walk : the haunts of familiar characters in history and literature . t by goinginto the minutiae of the solemn absurdityof the decision arrived at by ChurchCourts. To wit: that Madonna GinevraAgolanti, having died officially, and beeninterred in good and regular order, eccle-siastically, was now not, henceforth, andfor all time. Furthermore, that the mar-riaofe-contract between her and MesserFrancesco Agolanti was legally dissolvedby her decease, and hereafter not bindingupon either party. This decreed, it wasno concern of the solemn owl, the StateChurch, what happened to either o
Where ghosts walk : the haunts of familiar characters in history and literature . t by goinginto the minutiae of the solemn absurdityof the decision arrived at by ChurchCourts. To wit: that Madonna GinevraAgolanti, having died officially, and beeninterred in good and regular order, eccle-siastically, was now not, henceforth, andfor all time. Furthermore, that the mar-riaofe-contract between her and MesserFrancesco Agolanti was legally dissolvedby her decease, and hereafter not bindingupon either party. This decreed, it wasno concern of the solemn owl, the StateChurch, what happened to either of them,thereafter. Messer Francesco was free totake unto himself another wife, and neitherthe Holy Father of Rome nor the Signoriaof the Florentine Republic had jurisdic-tion over a ghost. To us, the Perfect Tale is rounded to afaultless close with the opening of that The Ginevra Tale i6i door; the lifting- of the helpless womanfrom the threshold of Antonio Rondi-nellis door, in his strong arms, and to hisfaithful bosom. And it was all true, too, here, in thisVia della Morte !. X JOHN KEATS IN ROME 163 X JOHN KEATS IN ROME THE Spanish Steps are as well knownto the tourist in Rome as St. PetersChurch. At the top of the stately flightis the Church of San Trinita del Monte,her twin towers rising light and strongagainst the sky. At the foot is the Fon-tana della Barca, a landmark of great anduncertain age. The gentle babble of theplaying waters, unheard a dozen pacesaway when the fashionable din of the Pi-azza di Spagna is at its loudest, is distinctto the nocturnal lounger upon the upper-most landing of the stone stairway. It rises in broken, musical whispers tothe open window of a second-story frontroom of the first house on the right, asyou ascend the steps of the Trinity delMonte. 165 166 Where Ghosts Walk This was Joseph Severns description ofthe lodgings hired for himself and his in-valid friend John Keats, by an Englishphysician resident in Rome. The twoyoung men arrived in
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