Villa Alberti.Deeply ngrossedin Italianpolitics,she issueda small volume of political poems titled Poems before Congress (1860)"most ofwhich were written to express her sympathy with the Italian cause after the outbreak offighting in 1859".[5]They caused a furore in England and she was labelled as a fanatic by conservative magazines Blackwood's and the Saturday Review She dedicated this book to her husband.Her last work wasA Musical Instrument,published posthumously. In 1860 they returned to Rome,only to find that Elizabeth's sister Henriettahad died,news which made Elizabeth weak and depressed.She became gradually weaker,using morphine to ease her pain.She died on 29 June 1861 in her husband's arms Browning said that she died "smilingly,happily,and witha face like a girl's.Her last word was-.'Beautiful'".[2]She was buried in the Protestant English Cemetery ofFlorence."On Monday July 1 the shops in the section of the city around Casa Guidi were closed,while Elizabeth was mourned with unusual demonstrations."[11]The nature ofher illness is still unclear, although medical and literary scholars have speculated that longstanding pulmonary problems,combined with palliative opiates,contributed to her decline Villa Alberti. Deeply engrossed in Italian politics, she issued a small volume of political poems titled Poems before Congress (1860) “most of which were written to express her sympathy with the Italian cause after the outbreak of fighting in 1859”.[5]They caused a furore in England and she was labelled as a fanatic by conservative magazines Blackwood's and the Saturday Review. She dedicated this book to her husband. Her last work was A Musical Instrument, published posthumously. In 1860 they returned to Rome, only to find that Elizabeth’s sister Henrietta had died, news which made Elizabeth weak and depressed. She became gradually weaker, using morphine to ease her pain. She died on 29 June 1861 in her husband's arms. Browning said that she died "smilingly, happily, and with a face like a girl's. . Her last word was—. 'Beautiful'".[2] She was buried in the Protestant English Cemetery of Florence. “On Monday July 1 the shops in the section of the city around Casa Guidi were closed, while Elizabeth was mourned with unusual demonstrations.”[11]The nature of her illness is still unclear, although medical and literary scholars have speculated that longstanding pulmonary problems, combined with palliative opiates, contributed to her decline