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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Françoise de Rimini, oil on canvas, 1814.
Etching by Gustave Dorè for the 1857 edition of Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia.
Charles Edward Hallè, Paolo and Francesca, oil on canvas, date unknown.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Paolo and Francesca da Rimini, watercolour, 1867.
William Dyce, Francesca da Rimini, oil on canvas, 1837.
Ernst Klimt, Francesca da Rimini e Paolo, oil on canvas, circa 1890.
Anselm Feuerbach, Paolo und Francesca, oil on canvas, 1864.
Marie Philippe Coupin de la Couperie, Les amours funestes de Françoise de Rimini et Paolo Malatesta, oil on canvas, 1812.
Joseph Noel Paton, The Murder of Paolo and Francesca, before 1910.
Alexandre Cabanel, La mort de Francesca da Rimini et de Paolo Malatesta, oil on canvas, 1870.
Etching by Gustave Dorè for the 1857 edition of Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia.
Giuseppe Frascheri, Dante e Virgilio incontrano Paolo e Francesca (Dante and Vergilius meet Paolo and Francesca), oil on canvas, 1846.
Henri Martin, Paolo Malatesta et Francesca da Rimini aux enfers, oil on canvas, 1883.
Ary Scheffer, Francesca da Rimini en Paolo Malatesta aanschouwd door Dante en Virgilius (Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Vergilius), oil on canvas, 1835.
Eugène Deully, Dante et Vergil aux Enfers, originally exhibited as Françoise de Rimini (Paolo et Francesca aux Enfiers), 1897.
La Divina Commedia di Dante (Dante's Divina Commedia), fresco by Domenico Di Michelino (on a design by Alessio Baldovinetti), 1465; Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence.
Dante Alighieri tells the story of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini in the 5th Canto (verses 82-143) of Inferno, the first book of his Divina Commedia (1304-1321).
Francesca da Polenta (usually called Francesca da Rimini) was born in 1255 and was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, signore (lord) of Ravenna. Between 1275 and 1282, she married Giovanni Ciotto (the lame, usually called Gianciotto) Malatesta, signore of Rimini. They had a daughter, Concordia.
Paolo Malatesta, called il Bello (the handsome) was born in 1246 and was one of the two younger brothers of Gianciotto (they also had a sister). In 1269, he married Orabile Beatrice, Countess of Ghiaggiolo, and they had two children. According to historical sources, it's likely that Dante Alighieri met Paolo Malatesta in Florence in March 1282.
Became lovers, Paolo and Francesca were killed by Gianciotto between February 1283 and 1286 (in this year Gianciotto married Zambrasina di Tebaldello Zambrasi). It is believed that the double murder took place in the castle of Gradara, near Pesaro (Marche, Central Italy).
In his Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri imagines that he and Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro meet Paolo and Francesca in the second circle of the Hell, reserved for the lustful. They are trapped in an eternal whirlwind, swept through the air after death just as they were swept by passion alive. Dante recognizes Francesca after she told her story and he is so overwhelmed by pity for the two lovers to faint.
Poster for Raffaello Matarazzo's drama Paolo e Francesca (Paolo and Francesca, 1949), starring Odile Versois (as Francesca), Armando Francioli (as Paolo) and Andrea Checchi (as Gianciotto).
See also:
Rome's E42
Andrea Doria
Rome's Rugantino Night
Crociera Aerea del Decennale
Teatro alla Scala
Maria Callas At La Scala
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