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Francesca da Rimini

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[fran-ches-kuh duh rim-uh-nee, frahn-, frahn-che-skah dah ree-mee-nee] / frænˈtʃɛs kə də ˈrɪm ə ni, frɑn-, frɑnˈtʃɛ skɑ dɑ ˈri mi ni /

noun

  1. died 1285?, Italian noblewoman: immortalized by Dante in the Divine Comedy.


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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

This year it's Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini, first performed in 1914, to a libretto that Gabriele D'Annunzio adapted from Dante's Inferno.

From The Guardian Jul. 23, 2010

The Met stages Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini One of the quirks of 20th century music is that Italian opera should have gone into such decline.

From Time Magazine Archive

The well-known composition of "Francesca da Rimini" may well conclude our brief notice of the pictures of this second epoch.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various

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