Francesca da Rimini
The Francesca da Rimini project, which from today is beginning to take shape like the flower in the button-hole of our website, is dedicated to one of the female personages who have mainly inspired artists, poets and playwrights throughout the world. The heart of the project is made up of a considerable number of Francesca da Rimini’s “voices”: as many of them as there are languages and dialects...
Great painters of the Divine Comedy – Ary Scheffer
Ary (Arij) Scheffer, Dutch painter of the Romantic period, was born in Dordrecht in 1795 and died in Argenteuil in 1858 [...]
Francesca da Rimini. Dante’s original verses
Inferno, Canto V, vv 82-142 -- "Quali colombe dal disio chiamate..." If you want to listen to the readings in Italian of these verses of Dante click on the names of those who made every single reading.
Francesca da Rimini – Edition Venice 1564
A famous Venetian edition of the sixteenth century published by the printers Giovambattista and Marchiò Sessa.
Francesca da Rimini – Edition Foligno 1472
The very first printed edition published in the 15th century by the Foligno pressman Johan Numeister.
“Paolo, datemi pace”
The romance “Paolo, give me peace” from the third act of the opera by Riccardo Zandonai (soprano Iris Adami Corradetti).
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Francesca da Rimini -- Tone poem of Chaikovskij in three parts andante lugubre – andante cantabile – allegro vivo
Sergej Rachmaninov “Francesca da Rimini”
Sergej Rachmaninov -- Fancesca da Rimini -- The aria of Francesca -- soprano Marina Poplavskaya -- Bolshoj Theatre Orchestra, Moscow.
Apulian Garganic – Granatiero
Verses of Francesca da Rimini translated into Apulian Garganic by Francesco Granatiero
Arabic – Abboud
Verses of Francesca da Rimini translated into Arabic by Hannah Abboud
RUSSIAN – Iljušin
Verses of Francesca da Rimini translated into Russian by Aleksandr A. Iljušin
Dante in Interlingua
Dante in Interlingua Sven Collberg Interlingua is an international auxiliary language project born around 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (Iala), an association founded in New York in 1924. The language had [...]
UKRAINIAN – Oleksandr Dmytrenko
Oleksandr Dmytrenko is a Ukrainian linguist born in 1971. He took his degree in 1994 at the Upper Pedagogic Institute for foreign languages of Kiev. He is now professor of French at the École spécialisée № 49 of the Ukrainian [...]
Kazuo Okuma
Kazuo Okuma is a Japanese journalist born in Tokyo in 1937. He took his degree in History and Scientific Philosophy in 1963 at the University of Tokyo and immediately started working for the daily newspaper Asahi [...]