Fra Lippo Lippi (poem)

Fra Lippo Lippi is an 1855 dramatic monologue written by the Victorian poet Robert Browning which first appeared in his collection Men and Women.

Throughout this poem, Browning depicts a 15th-century real-life painter, Filippo Lippi.

A secondary theme of the dramatic monologue is the Church's influence on art.

Aside from the theme of the Church and its desires to change the way holiness is represented artistically, this poem also attempts to construct a way of considering the secular with the religious in terms of how a "holy" person can conduct his life.

Questions of celibacy, church law, and the canon are considered as well by means of secondary characters.