Francesca da Rimini
Americannoun
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They join Beatrice Portinari and Francesca da Rimini, the only two historical women from the "Divine Comedy" who had acceptable entries on Wikipedia prior to our work.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2021
Francesca da Rimini Martin Lloyd-Evans's staging formidably captures the near-madness of it all.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2010
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Holland Park's best work often involves the re-examination of obscurities from the Italian post-Romantic repertoire, and their new production of Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini ranks among their great achievements.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2010
He knows all the operas, even works such as Fedora and Francesca da Rimini, by heart because he spent his childhood in the wings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not that he will ever be popular, in Shakspere's way; and yet it is far gone when the aesthete in a comic opera is described as a "Francesca da Rimini young man."
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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