Paolo and Francesca

On a day for dalliance we read the rhyme of Lancelot, how love had mastered him. We were alone with innocence and dim time. Pause after pause that high old story drew our eyes together while we blushed and paled; but it was one soft passage overthrew our caution and our hearts.  For when we…

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relationship of Francesca da Rimini with Paolo Malatesta - Wikidata

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The 5th Canto , the tragic love story of Paolo and Francesca. – William Cattini

Gustave Dore's Illustration 'Paolo and Francesca' from Dante's Divine Comedy Stock Photo - Alamy

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Gustave Dore Paolo and Francesca in the whirlwind of lust and torture, The Divine Comedy, 1861. Drawing by Paul Gustave Dore -1832-1883

Gustave Dore Paolo and Francesca in the whirlwind of lust and torture, The Divine Comedy, 1861. by Paul Gustave Dore -1832-1883

William Blake, The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca

Paolo and Francesca in nineteenth-century art: from Dante's Commedia to painting