Francesca dante

Front and back cover (plus track list) for our (free!) covers album, this could be us but you're playing. Sources: Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7: Tim Curry Tracks 2, 6: The Four Tops Track 4: Beck Hansen Track 8:...

Paolo and Francesca

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Paolo and Francesca da Rimini (1855) - Google Search

Paolo and Francesca da Rimini, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1855

Paolo and Francesca, by Amos Cassioli (1832-1891)

Paolo and Francesca - William Baxter Closson

“The act of remembering (happier times) is in itself a kind of contrapasso ("punishment") for Paolo & Francesca. That is, remembering is a bitter torment as they're swept up in an infernal whirlwind (bufera infernal) forever echoing the irredeemable sound of their unquiet hearts.”

"The Abyss" Pietro Canonica

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Dante tells the story of Paolo and Francesca, lovers as famous and ill-fated as Romeo and Juliet. Francesca da Rimini fell in love with Paolo Malatesta, to whose deformed elder brother, Giancotto, she was married. They are encountered by Dante, who had actually known both Paolo and Francesca's brother, in the second circle of Hell, where carnal lovers are punished. The story ended tragically in about 1288, when the jealous husband discovered the lovers together and stabbed them both to…

"Francesca da Rimini and Paolo" by William Dyce,1837

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Just over a year ago, we featured John Milton's Paradise Lost as illustrated by William Blake, the 18th- and 19th-century English poet, painter, and printmaker who made uncommonly full use of his already rare combination of once-a-generation literary and visual aptitude.

Francesca da Rimini by William Dyce, oil on canvas 1837