THIS MONTH’S PARODY (July 13) ‘How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix’

How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix Robert Browning (1838)  Browning wrote this in 1838 while on a sea voyage from London to Trieste. The incident it describes is fictional but refers to the (real) Pacification of Ghent in 1576, an historical treaty of such political complexity that I can’t be bothered…