The mediaeval folk had little of our specialised sentiment for landscape, and Browning could not get rid of it.
The modern philosophies of Nature do not, however, appear in _Sordello_ as they did in _Pauline_ or _Paracelsus_.

Only once in the whole of _Sordello_ is Nature conceived as in analogy with man, and Browning says this in a parenthesis.

"Life is in the tempest," he cries, "thought "Clothes the keen hill-top; mid-day woods are fraught With fervours": but, in spite of the mediaeval environment, the modern way of seeing Nature enters into all his descriptions.

They are none the worse for it, and do not jar too much with the mediaeval _mise-en-scene_.

We expect our modern sentiment, and Sordello himself, being in many ways a modern, seems to license these descriptions.