The speaker of this book's fourth chapter offers himself as a reasonable "Tertium Quid" "Between the rabble's-brabbles of dolts and fools" that have spoken in the two chapters before it.
The speaker of this book's fourth chapter offers himself as a reasonable "Tertium Quid" "Between the rabble's-brabbles of dolts and fools" that have spoken in the two chapters before it. Those chapters, "Half-Rome" and "The Other Half-Rome" give opposing opinions about the character of the man being tried, who defends himself in the fifth chapter and unrepentantly admits to the crime in the eleventh. That man is a count who killed his wife Pompilia after accusing her of cavorting with the priest Caponsacchi. In this work's prologue, the author tells how he took "pure crude fact / Secreted from man's life when hearts beat hard" and "fused my live soul and that inert stuff" to produce one of the title objects. For 10 points, name this poem based on the Roman murder case described in "the old Yellow Book," a work of Robert Browning.
The speaker of this book's fourth chapter offers himself as a reasonable "Tertium Quid" "Between the rabble's-brabbles of dolts and fools" that have spoken in the two chapters before it.
The {Ring} and the Book