At Florence after forty years—My pleasant apartments on the
Lungarno—I repeat my old walks—I still receive reviews of
“Parables and Tales,” always in their favour—My visit to
Rossetti at Kelmscott—I describe his home while there in a
poem—“Reminiscence”—My next work, “New Symbols”—Rossetti’s
remarks on certain stanzas of “The Birth of Venus,” and
“Michael Angelo”—William Rossetti reviews “New Symbols” in _The
Academy_, in 1876 248