In which Italian city is the ‘Casa Guidi’ museum?

'Casa Guidi' is a writer's house museum in the 15th-century patrician house in Piazza San Felice, 8, near the south end of the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy.

The piano nobile (the first floor of a large Palladian or Georgian house, containing the principal rooms) apartment was inhabited by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning between 1847 and Mrs Browning's death in 1861. Their only child, Robert Barrett Browning (known as Pen) was born there in 1849.

'Casa Guidi' was the subject for her 1851 collection of poems 'Casa Guidi Windows'.

The Browning household was one of the centres of British society in Florence.

After Pen's death in 1912 the apartment was bought by several Browning enthusiasts. By that time, 'Casa Guidi' was in poor shape, and the apartment retained hardly any furniture or paintings. The Browning Society in New York restored it, before giving it to Eton College which undertook further work so that the building could be used as a study centre. Today, it is part of The Eton College Collections, but is administered by the Landmark Trust, who also look after the apartment above the one where John Keats died in Rome. When not being used by Eton boys, the property is available for holiday lets booked through the Landmark Trust.

'Casa Guidi' is open to the public for 3:00–6:00 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from April to November. There is no admission fee, but donations are welcome.