Francesca da Rimini

This article is about the 13th-century person. For other uses, see Francesca da Rimini (disambiguation).

Paolo and Francesca da Rimini by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1862)

Francesca da Rimini[a] or Francesca da Polenta[a] (died between 1283 and 1286)[1] was an Italian medieval noblewoman of Ravenna, who was murdered by her husband, Giovanni Malatesta, upon his discovery of her affair with his brother, Paolo Malatesta. She was a contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy.


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