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In June 1860 Browning picked an old book off a stall in Florence. It contained various documents relating to the trial of one Count Guido Franceschini for the murder of his wife, whom he accused of adultery with a young priest. Franceschini was executed, together with four accomplices, in 1698. The story became the basis of THE RING AND THE BOOK, Browning’s most ambitious poem and an astonishing tour de force of dramatic verse in which subjective versions of the events are relayed from many points of view.