Fra Lippo Lippi- Robert Browning Summary in Hindi 2026

#FralippoLippisummaryinHindi Fra Lippo Lippi by Robert Browning ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue running the length of 376 lines. The poem is written in blank verse with each line following the meter of iambic pentameter. There are five beats per line, each beginning with a unstressed syllable, and ending with a stressed. It is important that this poem not be confined by a rhyme scheme as Browning needs the lines to sound like a conversation is taking place. This helps the reader imagine that they too are participating in the rapid story telling.  Summary of Fra Lippo Lippi “Fra Lippo Lippi” by Robert Browning details the difficult, tumultuous, and sometimes scandalous life of the painter Fra Lippo Lippi. The poem begins with the painter being accosted by a number of a policemen. He claims to be on his way home and not, as they think, stopping to visit a brothel. He mocks them for their mistake and reveals that he is a monk in the employee of the powerful Cosimo Medici. The officers are taken aback by this and release the monk but Lippi still feels the need to justify himself. He launches into the story of how he ended up there that night.  He tells the men that the was painting in his studio, “saints, and saints / And again saints,” and was very bored. He heard music out his window, climbed down to the street, and joined up with the procession of musicians. After celebrating for a time he was on his way home, when he was stopped. Still not satisfied that they understand him, Lippo decides to tell them about his childhood and how he grew up on the street.  Both of his parents died when he was young and he was forced to beg for scraps from men and dogs. He did this for a number of years before being taken into a monastery. There, he was finally able to eat his fill and indulge in his affinity for idleness. The monks attempted to make him study and learn Latin, but he says it was a waste of time.  They then noticed his abilities at painting and decide that is what he should focus on. He does so, painting everything he sees, but the Prior of the monastery is not happy with what he has made. The Prior wants more soul in the art and the painter wants soul and beauty. Some of the monks are very critical of his work but he claims not to care as he has Cosimo Medici to fall back on. Even so, he does seem hurt by their rebuffs.  Due to his harsh treatment at the monastery he rebels by sneaking out in the night, as he did on the night the story is being told. He informs the guards he is speaking to that there is another young man at the monastery who is going to grow up and act just as he does. He is not an aberration. Lippo continues to speak against the monks but after a time starts to feeling badly, and nervous, about what he has said. He does not want to get in trouble with the church.  Lippo tells his listeners that he has a plan to get back in the good graces of the church. He is going to paint a large painting that includes God and the Madonna and child. This painting will also include a self portrait. Lippo’s guilt recedes at this point and he jumps into an entertaining narrative regarding the painted version of himself and how he will spend time with the angels.  At the conclusion of this story he tells the guards his reputation with the church will be restored in six months, and runs off into the night as the sun is rising.