Nevertheless, though Naddo makes nonsense of the truth, he was right in the main, and Browning as well as Sordello suffered when they forgot or ignored that truth.

And, of course, Browning did not forget or ignore it in more than half his work.

Even in _Sordello_ he tells us how he gave himself up to recording with pity and love the doings of the universal soul.

He strove to paint the whole.

It was a bold ambition.