The Ring and the Book


Gelesen von 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)

Kapitel

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

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