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S.B. to Aberdeen and Belfast.
ROBERT WATSON (Baritone).
A. PARRY GUNN (Recital).
HARRY CARPENTER (Solo Violin).
Robert Watson. A. Parry Gunn. A Personality,
"FRA LIPPO LIPPI"
(Robert Browning).
Fra Filippo Lippi was a Florentine painter who lived from 1412 to 1469. Botticelli was his pupil. Circumstance made Lippi a Monk, but, not possessing the monkish temperament, he was given to breaking bounds and joining bands of roysterers in their noctural adventures.
In this Poem (which, like all his best work, is dramatic in form) Browning imagines Lippi caught by the Watch on one of his night rambles. He makes friends with the Chief of the Guard, and to him expounds his philosophy of Art and of Life.
The Poem is generally acknowledged to be one of the clearest and finest existing expressions of the principles upon which the Italian painters of the greatest period founded their practice.
(Robert Watson.)

Contributors

Baritone:
Robert Watson
Baritone:
A. Parry Gunn
Unknown:
Harry Carpenter
Violin:
Robert Watson.
Unknown:
Parry Gunn.
Unknown:
Robert Browning
Unknown:
Filippo Lippi
Unknown:
Robert Watson.

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