The Ring and the Book


Leído por Tony Oliva

(3.8 stars; 2 reviews)

"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 (26 hr 7 min)

Capítulos

Chapter 1 - The Ring and the Book: "Do you see this ring?" 9:31 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 1. "Word for word, So ran the title-page" 7:32 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 1. "So was the trial at end, do you suppose?" 11:47 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 1. "Well, British Public, ye who like me not," 19:56 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 1. "This was it from, my fancy with those facts," 7:45 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 1. "Enough of me!" 9:41 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 1. "Then, yet another day let come and go," 7:56 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 1. "Also hear Caponsacchi who comes next," 6:45 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 1. "Then, since a Trial ensued, a touch o' the same" 12:27 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 1. "Then must speak Guido yet a second time," 8:10 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 1. "Such, British Public, ye who like me not," 3:05 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2 - Half-Rome: "What, you, Sir, come too? (Just the man I'd meet.)" 5:48 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "From dawn till now that it is growing dusk," 7:01 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "These wretched Comparini were once gay" 7:31 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "He waited and learned waiting, thirty years;" 8:09 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "They went to Arezzo,--Pietro and his spouse," 6:40 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "I see the comment ready on your lip," 6:25 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "This makes the first act of the farce" 9:23 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "Leave it thus, and now revert" 8:42 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "So it went on and on till--who was right?" 6:32 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "Sir, what's the sequel?" 7:13 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "Therefore to Rome with the clear case" 10:07 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "The Canon Caponsacchi, then, was sent" 10:57 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "Come, here's the last drop does its worst to wound," 7:23 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 2. "But with a certain issue: no dispute" 5:52 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3 - The Other Half-Rome: "Another day that finds her living yet" 6:21 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "Truth lies between: there's anyhow a child" 6:19 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "Adam-like, Pietro sighed and said no more" 7:12 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "So--giving now his great flap-hat a gloss" 8:04 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "Then with the great air did he kiss" 8:08 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "And faith here made the mountains move." 7:48 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "Who could gainsay this just and right award?" 7:41 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "In short, he also took the middle course" 12:52 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "This is why;" 6:05 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "When first, pursuant to his plan, there sprung" 7:36 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "All was determined and performed at once" 9:20 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "Guido's tale begins--" 8:16 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "So was the case concluded then and there" 7:26 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "The priest went to his relegation-place" 7:16 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. "You, What would you answer?" 7:39 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 3. ""Come in," bade poor Violante cheerfully" 5:11 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4 - Tertium Quid: "True, Excellency--as his Highness says" 7:30 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "What's his resource? He asks and straight obtains" 7:22 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "Accordingly, when time was come about" 9:21 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "Indeed the prize was simply full to a fault" 9:54 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "Said and done." 7:36 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "On the other hand "Not so!" Guido retorts" 8:47 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "On the other hand, so much is easily said" 11:28 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "But then this is the wife's--Pompilia's tale" 7:59 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "Then, look into his own account o' the case!" 6:36 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "Guido rejoins--"Did the other end o' the tale" 15:41 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "Is it settled so far?" 8:31 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "And, as they left by one door," 9:06 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 4. "At this discrepancy of judgments--mad" 8:44 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5 - Count Guido Franceschini: "Thanks, Sir, but, should it please the … 10:26 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "I am representative of a great line" 7:38 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "So I was." 14:17 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "Now, Paul's advice was weighty: priests should know:" 12:36 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "So much for them so far: now for myself" 15:42 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "Such was the starting; now of the further step." 13:39 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. ""Far from that! No, you took the opposite course," 8:59 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "So much For the terrible effect of threatening, Sirs!" 9:51 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "Oh, but we did not write a single word!" 11:10 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "I played the man as I best might, bade friends" 8:11 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "Now,--I see my lords Shift in their seat" 8:33 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. ""Nay," said the letter, "but you have just that!" 8:50 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "Festive bells--everywhere the Feast o' the Babe" 13:40 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "But now Health is returned, and sanity of soul" 9:34 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 5. "Then I proceed a step, come with clean hands" 15:00 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6 - Giuseppe Caponsacchi: "Answer you, Sirs? Do I understand aright?" 7:28 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "Men, for the last time, what do you want with me?" 8:37 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "I begin." 8:20 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "So I became a priest: those terms changed all" 8:16 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "Sirs, ere the week was out," 8:27 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "I questioned--lifting half the woman's mask" 7:37 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "So, I went: crossed street and street: "The next street's turn," 12:34 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "I answered, "It shall be when it can be." 6:29 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "I' the grey of dawn it was I found myself" 6:42 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "There she stood--leaned there, for the second time," 7:41 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "For the first hour We both were silent in the night, I know" 7:18 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "We did go on all night; but at its close" 7:00 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "Suddenly I saw The old tower" 8:14 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "She started up, stood erect, face to face" 7:41 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "When we were parted,--shall I go on there?" 7:49 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "And I was just set down to study these" 7:43 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "I have done with being judged." 7:06 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "Why, Sirs, what's this? Why, this is sorry and strange!" 8:15 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 6. "Sirs, I am quiet again. You see, we are" 3:28 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7 - Pompilia: "I am just seventeen years and five months old" 8:20 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "On second thoughts, I hope he will regard" 8:27 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "Six days ago when it was New Year's-day" 11:04 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "There was a fancy came" 7:51 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "When I saw nothing more, the next three weeks" 7:32 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "All since is one blank" 10:39 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "I felt there was just one thing Guido claimed" 9:19 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "So, home I did go; so, the worst befell" 7:40 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "I had been miserable three drear years" 7:44 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "There may have elapsed a week" 7:16 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "I returned," 6:49 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "Now, understand here, by no means mistake!" 8:14 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "Off she went--"May he not refuse, that's all" 7:24 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "And this man, men call sinner? Jesus Christ!" 11:38 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "You see, I will not have the service fail!" 9:35 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 7. "Well, and there is more! Yes, my end of breath" 6:11 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8 - Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis Pauperum Procurator: "Ah, my Gi… 9:27 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "Whew!" 13:13 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "Yet what do I name "little and a leak?" 10:05 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "So, doubtless, had I needed argue here" 11:58 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "May Gigia have remembered, nothing stings" 11:33 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "Have I proved" 13:37 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "Pause and breathe!" 10:12 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "And now, sea widens and the coast is clear." 9:19 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "Here fall to be considered those same six" 9:26 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "Third aggravation: that our act was done--" 8:32 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "But wait awhile!" 10:48 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "Talking of which flea" 8:35 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 8. "And now, thou excellent the Governor!" 13:04 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9 - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius: "Had I God's leave, how… 8:28 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9. "End we exordium, Phaebus plucks my ear!" 9:35 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9. "For lo, advancing Hymen and his pomp!" 12:08 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9. "Enough! Prepare," 7:53 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9. "From all which, I deduce--the lady here" 9:29 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9. "Thus Would I defend the step,--were the thing true" 9:06 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9. "Fit place, methinks," 10:56 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9. "And so he was contented--one must do" 8:01 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9. "It happened once,--begins this foolish Jew," 9:40 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9. "Forgive me this digression--that I stand" 10:51 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9. "Yet doubt he dares!" 8:40 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 9. "Your "this," friend, is extraneous to the law," 9:51 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10 - The Pope: "Like to Ahasuerus, that shrewd prince," 11:19 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "But, after John, came Sergius, reaffirmed" 12:10 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "O pale departure, dim disgrace of day!" 10:24 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "This is why Guido is found reprobate." 10:34 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "He purposes this marriage, I remark," 10:28 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "Whereby the man so far attains his end" 10:58 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "So is the murder managed, sin conceived" 13:25 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "Nay, more i' the background, yet? Unnoticed forms" 9:25 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "And surely not so very much apart" 10:40 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "So do I see, pronounce on all and some" 6:14 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "O Thou,--as represented here to me" 9:02 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "Neither does this astonish at the end," 14:23 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "And is this little all that was to be?" 12:31 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "How should I answer this Euripides?" 12:50 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 10. "Still, I stand here, not off the stage though close" 13:45 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11 - Guido: "You are the Cardinal Acciaiuoli, and you," 10:37 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "Life!" 13:06 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "That's Nature's way of loosing cord!--but Art," 15:44 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "I say that, long ago, when things began," 9:23 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "And the Pope breaks talk with ambassador," 9:22 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "Enough of the hypocrites. But you, Sirs, you--" 10:48 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "Yes, presently...what hour is fleeting now?" 13:52 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "Why must your nephews begin breathing spice" 10:28 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "Panciatichi!" 10:13 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "All which just means," 9:54 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "'Tis I preach while the hour-glass runs and runs!" 9:01 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "Just this immaculate official stares," 8:43 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "And then my Trial,--'tis my Trial that bites" 11:30 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "Thus The time's arrived when, ancient Roman-like," 9:56 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "So, let death atone!" 13:13 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 11. "You too are petrifactions of a kind:" 15:05 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 12 - The Book and the Ring: "Here were the end, had anything an end:" 7:34 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 12. "Now for the thing; no sooner the decree" 10:54 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 12. "And so forth,--follow name and place and date:" 10:29 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 12. "I looked that Rome should have the natural gird" 11:53 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 12. "For me, the weary and the worn, who prompt" 10:05 Leído por Tony Oliva
Chapter 12. "Alack, Bottini, what is my next word" 8:42 Leído por Tony Oliva

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