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"Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman,
"With certain Four the cutthroats in his pay,
"Tried, all five, and found guilty and put to death
"By heading or hanging as befitted ranks,
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"Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman,
"With certain Four the cutthroats in his pay,
"Tried, all five, and found guilty and put to death
"By heading or hanging as befitted ranks,
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"Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman,
"With certain Four the cutthroats in his pay,
"Tried, all five, and found guilty and put to death
"By heading or hanging as befitted ranks,
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The Ring and the Book

The Ring and the Book

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Number of Chapters: 166

Length: 26 hours and 07 minutes

Language: English

"Better translate--"A Roman murder-case:
"Position of the entire criminal cause
"Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman,
"With certain Four the cutthroats in his pay,
"Tried, all five, and found guilty and put to death
"By heading or hanging as befitted ranks,
"At Rome on February Twenty-Two,
"Since our salvation Sixteen Ninety Eight:
"Wherein it is disputed if, and when,
"Husbands may kill adulterous wives, yet 'scape
'The customary forfeit.'"
(Excerpt from first chapter of The Ring and the Book.)

Note from reader: The main text I have read from follows the first edition; but there are some words or lines that do not make sense, either through copying mistakes or because they are difficult if not impossible to make sense of in the first edition. In such cases, I have relied upon an alternate text, found at archive.org and also in the public domain, that contains the wording of the later editions. --Tony Oliva

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Chapter 1 - The Ring and the Book: "Do you see this ring?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 1. "Word for word, So ran the title-page" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 1. "So was the trial at end, do you suppose?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 1. "Well, British Public, ye who like me not," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 1. "This was it from, my fancy with those facts," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 1. "Enough of me!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 1. "Then, yet another day let come and go," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 1. "Also hear Caponsacchi who comes next," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 1. "Then, since a Trial ensued, a touch o' the same" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 1. "Then must speak Guido yet a second time," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 1. "Such, British Public, ye who like me not," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2 - Half-Rome: "What, you, Sir, come too? (Just the man I'd meet.)" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "From dawn till now that it is growing dusk," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "These wretched Comparini were once gay" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "He waited and learned waiting, thirty years;" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "They went to Arezzo,--Pietro and his spouse," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "I see the comment ready on your lip," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "This makes the first act of the farce" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "Leave it thus, and now revert" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "So it went on and on till--who was right?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "Sir, what's the sequel?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "Therefore to Rome with the clear case" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "The Canon Caponsacchi, then, was sent" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "Come, here's the last drop does its worst to wound," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 2. "But with a certain issue: no dispute" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3 - The Other Half-Rome: "Another day that finds her living yet" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "Truth lies between: there's anyhow a child" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "Adam-like, Pietro sighed and said no more" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "So--giving now his great flap-hat a gloss" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "Then with the great air did he kiss" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "And faith here made the mountains move." (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "Who could gainsay this just and right award?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "In short, he also took the middle course" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "This is why;" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "When first, pursuant to his plan, there sprung" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "All was determined and performed at once" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "Guido's tale begins--" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "So was the case concluded then and there" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "The priest went to his relegation-place" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. "You, What would you answer?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 3. ""Come in," bade poor Violante cheerfully" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4 - Tertium Quid: "True, Excellency--as his Highness says" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "What's his resource? He asks and straight obtains" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "Accordingly, when time was come about" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "Indeed the prize was simply full to a fault" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "Said and done." (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "On the other hand "Not so!" Guido retorts" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "On the other hand, so much is easily said" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "But then this is the wife's--Pompilia's tale" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "Then, look into his own account o' the case!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "Guido rejoins--"Did the other end o' the tale" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "Is it settled so far?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "And, as they left by one door," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 4. "At this discrepancy of judgments--mad" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5 - Count Guido Franceschini: "Thanks, Sir, but, should it please the reverend Court" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "I am representative of a great line" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "So I was." (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "Now, Paul's advice was weighty: priests should know:" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "So much for them so far: now for myself" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "Such was the starting; now of the further step." (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. ""Far from that! No, you took the opposite course," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "So much For the terrible effect of threatening, Sirs!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "Oh, but we did not write a single word!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "I played the man as I best might, bade friends" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "Now,--I see my lords Shift in their seat" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. ""Nay," said the letter, "but you have just that!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "Festive bells--everywhere the Feast o' the Babe" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "But now Health is returned, and sanity of soul" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 5. "Then I proceed a step, come with clean hands" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6 - Giuseppe Caponsacchi: "Answer you, Sirs? Do I understand aright?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "Men, for the last time, what do you want with me?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "I begin." (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "So I became a priest: those terms changed all" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "Sirs, ere the week was out," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "I questioned--lifting half the woman's mask" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "So, I went: crossed street and street: "The next street's turn," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "I answered, "It shall be when it can be." (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "I' the grey of dawn it was I found myself" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "There she stood--leaned there, for the second time," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "For the first hour We both were silent in the night, I know" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "We did go on all night; but at its close" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "Suddenly I saw The old tower" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "She started up, stood erect, face to face" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "When we were parted,--shall I go on there?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "And I was just set down to study these" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "I have done with being judged." (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "Why, Sirs, what's this? Why, this is sorry and strange!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 6. "Sirs, I am quiet again. You see, we are" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7 - Pompilia: "I am just seventeen years and five months old" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "On second thoughts, I hope he will regard" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "Six days ago when it was New Year's-day" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "There was a fancy came" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "When I saw nothing more, the next three weeks" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "All since is one blank" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "I felt there was just one thing Guido claimed" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "So, home I did go; so, the worst befell" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "I had been miserable three drear years" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "There may have elapsed a week" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "I returned," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "Now, understand here, by no means mistake!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "Off she went--"May he not refuse, that's all" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "And this man, men call sinner? Jesus Christ!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "You see, I will not have the service fail!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 7. "Well, and there is more! Yes, my end of breath" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8 - Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis Pauperum Procurator: "Ah, my Giacinto, he's no ruddy rogue," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "Whew!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "Yet what do I name "little and a leak?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "So, doubtless, had I needed argue here" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "May Gigia have remembered, nothing stings" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "Have I proved" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "Pause and breathe!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "And now, sea widens and the coast is clear." (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "Here fall to be considered those same six" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "Third aggravation: that our act was done--" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "But wait awhile!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "Talking of which flea" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 8. "And now, thou excellent the Governor!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9 - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius: "Had I God's leave, how I would alter things!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9. "End we exordium, Phaebus plucks my ear!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9. "For lo, advancing Hymen and his pomp!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9. "Enough! Prepare," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9. "From all which, I deduce--the lady here" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9. "Thus Would I defend the step,--were the thing true" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9. "Fit place, methinks," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9. "And so he was contented--one must do" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9. "It happened once,--begins this foolish Jew," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9. "Forgive me this digression--that I stand" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9. "Yet doubt he dares!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 9. "Your "this," friend, is extraneous to the law," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10 - The Pope: "Like to Ahasuerus, that shrewd prince," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "But, after John, came Sergius, reaffirmed" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "O pale departure, dim disgrace of day!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "This is why Guido is found reprobate." (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "He purposes this marriage, I remark," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "Whereby the man so far attains his end" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "So is the murder managed, sin conceived" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "Nay, more i' the background, yet? Unnoticed forms" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "And surely not so very much apart" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "So do I see, pronounce on all and some" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "O Thou,--as represented here to me" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "Neither does this astonish at the end," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "And is this little all that was to be?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "How should I answer this Euripides?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 10. "Still, I stand here, not off the stage though close" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11 - Guido: "You are the Cardinal Acciaiuoli, and you," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "Life!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "That's Nature's way of loosing cord!--but Art," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "I say that, long ago, when things began," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "And the Pope breaks talk with ambassador," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "Enough of the hypocrites. But you, Sirs, you--" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "Yes, presently...what hour is fleeting now?" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "Why must your nephews begin breathing spice" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "Panciatichi!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "All which just means," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "'Tis I preach while the hour-glass runs and runs!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "Just this immaculate official stares," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "And then my Trial,--'tis my Trial that bites" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "Thus The time's arrived when, ancient Roman-like," (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "So, let death atone!" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 11. "You too are petrifactions of a kind:" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 12 - The Book and the Ring: "Here were the end, had anything an end:" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 12. "Now for the thing; no sooner the decree" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 12. "And so forth,--follow name and place and date:" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 12. "I looked that Rome should have the natural gird" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 12. "For me, the weary and the worn, who prompt" (Tony Oliva)
Chapter 12. "Alack, Bottini, what is my next word" (Tony Oliva)
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