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Giacomo Pacchiarotti

Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper is the title poem of a collection of the same name by Robert Browning, published in 1876.

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He is recorded as having been a designer for pageants, and was active in the Sienese resistance against Florence.

Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper

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.

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