Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper is a short collection of English poems by Robert Browning, published in 1876. The collection marked Browning's first collection of short pieces for more than twelve years, and was well-received. The title poem, which ostensibly discusses the life and works of 15th Century Italian painter Giacomo Pacchiarotti, is actually a thinly-veiled attack on Browning's own critics, and many other pieces in the collection take the same tone.

Contents

• Prologue
• Of Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper
• At the “Mermaid”
• House
• Shop
• Pisgah-Sights
• Fears and Scruples
• Natural Magic
• Magical Nature
• Bifurcation
• Numpholeptos
• Appearances
• St. Martin’s Summer
• Hervé Riel
• A Forgiveness
• Cenciaja
• Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial
• Epilogue

External links

• Full text of the collection