Robert and Elizabeth Browning memorial plaque

The plaque, located in Via Bocca di Leone, in the Campo Marzio district, and commemorates the English poet Robert Browning (Camberwell, 1812 - Venice, 1889) and his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Durham, 1806 - Florence, 1861), also a poet, who lived here. The names, according to a common custom until a few decades ago, were Italianized to Roberto and Elisabetta Browning. The plaque cites some verses of the poets dedicated to Italy.
The plaque was placed by the Municipality of Rome on May 7, 1912 on the occasion of the centennial of the poet's birth.