Francesca da Rimini
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francesca
- Gender
- female
- Place of birth
- Ravenna
- Place of death
- Gradara
- Spouse
- Giovanni Malatesta
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Family
- Da Polenta family
- Image
- Feuerbach Paolo und Francesca.jpg
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- Commons category
- Francesca da Rimini
- date of birth
- 1259-01-01
- date of death
- 1285-01-01
- manner of death
- homicide
- killed by
- Giovanni Malatesta
- present in work
- The Divine Comedy
- birth name
- Francesca
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Paolo and Francesca da Rimini by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1862)
Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (died between 1283 and 1286) was an Italian 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Francesca da Rimini” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.