Ring and the Book

1. 1 Chapter 1 - The Ring and the Book: "Do you see this ring?"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
2. 2 Chapter 1. "Word for word, So ran the title-page"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
3. 3 Chapter 1. "So was the trial at end, do you suppose?"Read by Tony Oliva 11m
4. 4 Chapter 1. "Well, British Public, ye who like me not,"Read by Tony Oliva 19m
5. 5 Chapter 1. "This was it from, my fancy with those facts,"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
6. 6 Chapter 1. "Enough of me!"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
7. 7 Chapter 1. "Then, yet another day let come and go,"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
8. 8 Chapter 1. "Also hear Caponsacchi who comes next,"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
9. 9 Chapter 1. "Then, since a Trial ensued, a touch o' the same"Read by Tony Oliva 12m
10. 10 Chapter 1. "Then must speak Guido yet a second time,"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
11. 11 Chapter 1. "Such, British Public, ye who like me not,"Read by Tony Oliva 3m
12. 12 Chapter 2 - Half-Rome: "What, you, Sir, come too? (Just the man I'd meet.)"Read by Tony Oliva 5m
13. 13 Chapter 2. "From dawn till now that it is growing dusk,"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
14. 14 Chapter 2. "These wretched Comparini were once gay"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
15. 15 Chapter 2. "He waited and learned waiting, thirty years;"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
16. 16 Chapter 2. "They went to Arezzo,--Pietro and his spouse,"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
17. 17 Chapter 2. "I see the comment ready on your lip,"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
18. 18 Chapter 2. "This makes the first act of the farce"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
19. 19 Chapter 2. "Leave it thus, and now revert"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
20. 20 Chapter 2. "So it went on and on till--who was right?"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
21. 21 Chapter 2. "Sir, what's the sequel?"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
22. 22 Chapter 2. "Therefore to Rome with the clear case"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
23. 23 Chapter 2. "The Canon Caponsacchi, then, was sent"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
24. 24 Chapter 2. "Come, here's the last drop does its worst to wound,"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
25. 25 Chapter 2. "But with a certain issue: no dispute"Read by Tony Oliva 5m
26. 26 Chapter 3 - The Other Half-Rome: "Another day that finds her living yet"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
27. 27 Chapter 3. "Truth lies between: there's anyhow a child"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
28. 28 Chapter 3. "Adam-like, Pietro sighed and said no more"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
29. 29 Chapter 3. "So--giving now his great flap-hat a gloss"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
30. 30 Chapter 3. "Then with the great air did he kiss"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
31. 31 Chapter 3. "And faith here made the mountains move."Read by Tony Oliva 7m
32. 32 Chapter 3. "Who could gainsay this just and right award?"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
33. 33 Chapter 3. "In short, he also took the middle course"Read by Tony Oliva 12m
34. 34 Chapter 3. "This is why;"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
35. 35 Chapter 3. "When first, pursuant to his plan, there sprung"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
36. 36 Chapter 3. "All was determined and performed at once"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
37. 37 Chapter 3. "Guido's tale begins--"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
38. 38 Chapter 3. "So was the case concluded then and there"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
39. 39 Chapter 3. "The priest went to his relegation-place"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
40. 40 Chapter 3. "You, What would you answer?"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
41. 41 Chapter 3. ""Come in," bade poor Violante cheerfully"Read by Tony Oliva 5m
42. 42 Chapter 4 - Tertium Quid: "True, Excellency--as his Highness says"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
43. 43 Chapter 4. "What's his resource? He asks and straight obtains"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
44. 44 Chapter 4. "Accordingly, when time was come about"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
45. 45 Chapter 4. "Indeed the prize was simply full to a fault"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
46. 46 Chapter 4. "Said and done."Read by Tony Oliva 7m
47. 47 Chapter 4. "On the other hand "Not so!" Guido retorts"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
48. 48 Chapter 4. "On the other hand, so much is easily said"Read by Tony Oliva 11m
49. 49 Chapter 4. "But then this is the wife's--Pompilia's tale"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
50. 50 Chapter 4. "Then, look into his own account o' the case!"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
51. 51 Chapter 4. "Guido rejoins--"Did the other end o' the tale"Read by Tony Oliva 15m
52. 52 Chapter 4. "Is it settled so far?"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
53. 53 Chapter 4. "And, as they left by one door,"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
54. 54 Chapter 4. "At this discrepancy of judgments--mad"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
55. 55 Chapter 5 - Count Guido Franceschini: "Thanks, Sir, but, should it please the reverend Court"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
56. 56 Chapter 5. "I am representative of a great line"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
57. 57 Chapter 5. "So I was."Read by Tony Oliva 14m
58. 58 Chapter 5. "Now, Paul's advice was weighty: priests should know:"Read by Tony Oliva 12m
59. 59 Chapter 5. "So much for them so far: now for myself"Read by Tony Oliva 15m
60. 60 Chapter 5. "Such was the starting; now of the further step."Read by Tony Oliva 13m
61. 61 Chapter 5. ""Far from that! No, you took the opposite course,"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
62. 62 Chapter 5. "So much For the terrible effect of threatening, Sirs!"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
63. 63 Chapter 5. "Oh, but we did not write a single word!"Read by Tony Oliva 11m
64. 64 Chapter 5. "I played the man as I best might, bade friends"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
65. 65 Chapter 5. "Now,--I see my lords Shift in their seat"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
66. 66 Chapter 5. ""Nay," said the letter, "but you have just that!"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
67. 67 Chapter 5. "Festive bells--everywhere the Feast o' the Babe"Read by Tony Oliva 13m
68. 68 Chapter 5. "But now Health is returned, and sanity of soul"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
69. 69 Chapter 5. "Then I proceed a step, come with clean hands"Read by Tony Oliva 15m
70. 70 Chapter 6 - Giuseppe Caponsacchi: "Answer you, Sirs? Do I understand aright?"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
71. 71 Chapter 6. "Men, for the last time, what do you want with me?"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
72. 72 Chapter 6. "I begin."Read by Tony Oliva 8m
73. 73 Chapter 6. "So I became a priest: those terms changed all"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
74. 74 Chapter 6. "Sirs, ere the week was out,"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
75. 75 Chapter 6. "I questioned--lifting half the woman's mask"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
76. 76 Chapter 6. "So, I went: crossed street and street: "The next street's turn,"Read by Tony Oliva 12m
77. 77 Chapter 6. "I answered, "It shall be when it can be."Read by Tony Oliva 6m
78. 78 Chapter 6. "I' the grey of dawn it was I found myself"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
79. 79 Chapter 6. "There she stood--leaned there, for the second time,"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
80. 80 Chapter 6. "For the first hour We both were silent in the night, I know"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
81. 81 Chapter 6. "We did go on all night; but at its close"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
82. 82 Chapter 6. "Suddenly I saw The old tower"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
83. 83 Chapter 6. "She started up, stood erect, face to face"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
84. 84 Chapter 6. "When we were parted,--shall I go on there?"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
85. 85 Chapter 6. "And I was just set down to study these"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
86. 86 Chapter 6. "I have done with being judged."Read by Tony Oliva 7m
87. 87 Chapter 6. "Why, Sirs, what's this? Why, this is sorry and strange!"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
88. 88 Chapter 6. "Sirs, I am quiet again. You see, we are"Read by Tony Oliva 3m
89. 89 Chapter 7 - Pompilia: "I am just seventeen years and five months old"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
90. 90 Chapter 7. "On second thoughts, I hope he will regard"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
91. 91 Chapter 7. "Six days ago when it was New Year's-day"Read by Tony Oliva 11m
92. 92 Chapter 7. "There was a fancy came"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
93. 93 Chapter 7. "When I saw nothing more, the next three weeks"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
94. 94 Chapter 7. "All since is one blank"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
95. 95 Chapter 7. "I felt there was just one thing Guido claimed"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
96. 96 Chapter 7. "So, home I did go; so, the worst befell"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
97. 97 Chapter 7. "I had been miserable three drear years"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
98. 98 Chapter 7. "There may have elapsed a week"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
99. 99 Chapter 7. "I returned,"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
100. 100 Chapter 7. "Now, understand here, by no means mistake!"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
101. 101 Chapter 7. "Off she went--"May he not refuse, that's all"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
102. 102 Chapter 7. "And this man, men call sinner? Jesus Christ!"Read by Tony Oliva 11m
103. 103 Chapter 7. "You see, I will not have the service fail!"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
104. 104 Chapter 7. "Well, and there is more! Yes, my end of breath"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
105. 105 Chapter 8 - Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis Pauperum Procurator: "Ah, my Giacinto, he's no ruddy rogue,"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
106. 106 Chapter 8. "Whew!"Read by Tony Oliva 13m
107. 107 Chapter 8. "Yet what do I name "little and a leak?"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
108. 108 Chapter 8. "So, doubtless, had I needed argue here"Read by Tony Oliva 11m
109. 109 Chapter 8. "May Gigia have remembered, nothing stings"Read by Tony Oliva 11m
110. 110 Chapter 8. "Have I proved"Read by Tony Oliva 13m
111. 111 Chapter 8. "Pause and breathe!"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
112. 112 Chapter 8. "And now, sea widens and the coast is clear."Read by Tony Oliva 9m
113. 113 Chapter 8. "Here fall to be considered those same six"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
114. 114 Chapter 8. "Third aggravation: that our act was done--"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
115. 115 Chapter 8. "But wait awhile!"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
116. 116 Chapter 8. "Talking of which flea"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
117. 117 Chapter 8. "And now, thou excellent the Governor!"Read by Tony Oliva 13m
118. 118 Chapter 9 - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius: "Had I God's leave, how I would alter things!"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
119. 119 Chapter 9. "End we exordium, Phaebus plucks my ear!"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
120. 120 Chapter 9. "For lo, advancing Hymen and his pomp!"Read by Tony Oliva 12m
121. 121 Chapter 9. "Enough! Prepare,"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
122. 122 Chapter 9. "From all which, I deduce--the lady here"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
123. 123 Chapter 9. "Thus Would I defend the step,--were the thing true"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
124. 124 Chapter 9. "Fit place, methinks,"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
125. 125 Chapter 9. "And so he was contented--one must do"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
126. 126 Chapter 9. "It happened once,--begins this foolish Jew,"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
127. 127 Chapter 9. "Forgive me this digression--that I stand"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
128. 128 Chapter 9. "Yet doubt he dares!"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
129. 129 Chapter 9. "Your "this," friend, is extraneous to the law,"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
130. 130 Chapter 10 - The Pope: "Like to Ahasuerus, that shrewd prince,"Read by Tony Oliva 11m
131. 131 Chapter 10. "But, after John, came Sergius, reaffirmed"Read by Tony Oliva 12m
132. 132 Chapter 10. "O pale departure, dim disgrace of day!"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
133. 133 Chapter 10. "This is why Guido is found reprobate."Read by Tony Oliva 10m
134. 134 Chapter 10. "He purposes this marriage, I remark,"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
135. 135 Chapter 10. "Whereby the man so far attains his end"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
136. 136 Chapter 10. "So is the murder managed, sin conceived"Read by Tony Oliva 13m
137. 137 Chapter 10. "Nay, more i' the background, yet? Unnoticed forms"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
138. 138 Chapter 10. "And surely not so very much apart"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
139. 139 Chapter 10. "So do I see, pronounce on all and some"Read by Tony Oliva 6m
140. 140 Chapter 10. "O Thou,--as represented here to me"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
141. 141 Chapter 10. "Neither does this astonish at the end,"Read by Tony Oliva 14m
142. 142 Chapter 10. "And is this little all that was to be?"Read by Tony Oliva 12m
143. 143 Chapter 10. "How should I answer this Euripides?"Read by Tony Oliva 12m
144. 144 Chapter 10. "Still, I stand here, not off the stage though close"Read by Tony Oliva 13m
145. 145 Chapter 11 - Guido: "You are the Cardinal Acciaiuoli, and you,"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
146. 146 Chapter 11. "Life!"Read by Tony Oliva 13m
147. 147 Chapter 11. "That's Nature's way of loosing cord!--but Art,"Read by Tony Oliva 15m
148. 148 Chapter 11. "I say that, long ago, when things began,"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
149. 149 Chapter 11. "And the Pope breaks talk with ambassador,"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
150. 150 Chapter 11. "Enough of the hypocrites. But you, Sirs, you--"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
151. 151 Chapter 11. "Yes, presently...what hour is fleeting now?"Read by Tony Oliva 13m
152. 152 Chapter 11. "Why must your nephews begin breathing spice"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
153. 153 Chapter 11. "Panciatichi!"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
154. 154 Chapter 11. "All which just means,"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
155. 155 Chapter 11. "'Tis I preach while the hour-glass runs and runs!"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
156. 156 Chapter 11. "Just this immaculate official stares,"Read by Tony Oliva 8m
157. 157 Chapter 11. "And then my Trial,--'tis my Trial that bites"Read by Tony Oliva 11m
158. 158 Chapter 11. "Thus The time's arrived when, ancient Roman-like,"Read by Tony Oliva 9m
159. 159 Chapter 11. "So, let death atone!"Read by Tony Oliva 13m
160. 160 Chapter 11. "You too are petrifactions of a kind:"Read by Tony Oliva 15m
161. 161 Chapter 12 - The Book and the Ring: "Here were the end, had anything an end:"Read by Tony Oliva 7m
162. 162 Chapter 12. "Now for the thing; no sooner the decree"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
163. 163 Chapter 12. "And so forth,--follow name and place and date:"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
164. 164 Chapter 12. "I looked that Rome should have the natural gird"Read by Tony Oliva 11m
165. 165 Chapter 12. "For me, the weary and the worn, who prompt"Read by Tony Oliva 10m
166. 166 Chapter 12. "Alack, Bottini, what is my next word"Read by Tony Oliva 8m

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