book lost popularity with readers during the 20th century; after its printing by Scribner's in the early twentieth-century, The Ring and the Book was printed by W. W. Norton & Company in the 1960s and 1970s. It is now currently available, though still difficult to acquire affordably or in a non-scholarly reading edition, by Broadview Press. Facsimile, translated, and free digital copies of the Old Yellow Book (the source documents for the poem) are also available, and they reveal the extent of conjecture and invention Browning used when writing the poem. After Browning's death, a cache of documents relating to the case almost twice the size of the Yellow Book was found in an Italian library in the 1920s. Browning's son Pen donated the Old Yellow Book and a ring of Browning's to Balliol College, Oxford University. The ring was mistakenly thought to be the one described in the poem. Adaptations The story is re-told in Derek Parker's 2001 true crime book Roman Murder Mystery: The True Story of Pompilia. In July 2008, a two part play adaptation of this story, set in poetry and prose by Martyn Wade and starring Anton Lesser as Browning, Roger Allam as Guido Franceschini and Louise Brealey as Pompilia, was broadcast as the BBC Radio 4 "Classic Serial". Abigail le Fleming produced and directed. Notes External links Hodell, Charles W. The Old Yellow Book facsimile and translation, published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1908), at the Internet Archive. Parker, Derek. Roman Murder Mystery: the true story of Pompilia, published by Sutton Publishing, UK. (2001) 1868 poems British poems Poetry by Robert Browning Verse novels Historical poems Smith, Elder & Co books