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ITALY. 889
Just out of this city, under cypress-trees shading a plain
brown-marble monument, reposes all that is mortal of one
who, not only in America, but in all enlightened lands, lives
on earth immortal. The slab has only this :
—
THEODORE PARKER.
Born at Lexington, Mass., U. S. A., Aug. 24, 1810.
Died at Florence, May 10, 1860.
Standing by the grave of this man, who was too broad for
a sect, and too noble for a priest, strange and deep emotions
thrilled my being's center ; and I was proud that I had personally
known him in life. Near by is the monument of
Elizabeth Barrett Browning with simply the plain initials,
" E. B. B." The inscription, exceedingly unassuming,
seems a veritable prophecy from herself in these lines :
—
" A stone above my heart and head,
But no name vnritten on the stone."
Among other distinguished
Italians, I here met Girolamo
Parisi, the editor and publisher of the " Aurora," a wellconducted
j^eriodical, printed in Florence, and devoted to
Spiritualism, psychology, phrenology, and moral philosophy.
Its pages are rich in sound, substantial teachings. In doctrine,
it accepts the re-incarnation system of the French
school. .
Happy were the hours I spent in the society of Baron
Kirl5.up.
Encircled by distinguished men of rank, having a
massive library of books treating of magic and the unsystematized
philosophy of the mystics, and being
a practical
mesmerist withal, the baron was brought into the fold of
Spiritualism over eighteen years since ; and he has never
shrunk from a frank avowal of his principles.
His daughter
is the principal medium he consults. Some of the manifestations
he has witnessed are absolutely astounding.