Paolo Malatesta (Italian pronunciation:[ˈpaːolomalaˈtɛsta]; c. 1246 – 1285), also known as il Bello ('the Beautiful'), was the third son of Malatesta da Verucchio, lord of Rimini. He is best known for the story of his affair with Francesca da Polenta, portrayed by Dante in a famous episode of his Inferno (Canto V). He was the brother of Giovanni (Gianciotto) and Malatestino Malatesta.
PaoloMalatesta (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːolomalaˈtɛsta]; c. 1246 – 1285), also known as il Bello ('the Beautiful'), was the third son of Malatesta...
was murdered by her husband, Giovanni Malatesta, upon his discovery of her affair with his brother, PaoloMalatesta. She was a contemporary of Dante Alighieri...
Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil (and several variant titles) is a composition painted in at least six very similar...
these are Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta, murdered lovers whose story was well-known in Dante's time. Malatesta and da Rimini have since been the...
Giovanni Malatesta (died 1304), known, from his lameness, as Gianciotto,[definition needed] or Giovanni, lo Sciancato,[definition needed] was the eldest...
fit with historical descriptions of the painting. Both Vasari and Gian Paolo Lomazzo describe the subject as smiling, unlike the subject in Cotte's supposed...
Graffiacane Libicocco Malacoda Rubicante Scarmiglione Malebolge Minos Nessus PaoloMalatesta Phlegethon Phlegyas Pietro della Vigna Plutus Pope Boniface VIII Pope...
PaoloMalatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Italy, 13th century. Two families have just restored peace thanks to the marriage of Gianciotto Malatesta with...
France The Death of Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta (La mort de Francesca de Rimini et de PaoloMalatesta, 1870), Musée d'Orsay, Paris Portrait de...
The House of Malatesta was an Italian family that ruled over Rimini from 1295 until 1500, as well as (in different periods) other lands and towns in Romagna...
of the Grande Galerie du Louvre Scheffer: Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil Vernet: A Mediterranean Port Vouet: Allegory...
of the Grande Galerie du Louvre Scheffer: Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil Vernet: A Mediterranean Port Vouet: Allegory...
economist Paolo Grossi (disambiguation), several people Paolo Hewitt, English music journalist PaoloMalatesta (c. 1246 – 1285), best known for the story of his...
Malatesta, famous for the 1285 tragedy, recorded in Dante's Inferno, in which he killed his wife Francesca da Polenta and his younger brother Paolo,...
Graffiacane Libicocco Malacoda Rubicante Scarmiglione Malebolge Minos Nessus PaoloMalatesta Phlegethon Phlegyas Pietro della Vigna Plutus Pope Boniface VIII Pope...
lovers kissing as the central motif. Francesca was the sister-in-law of PaoloMalatesta, and both were married, but they fell in love. Their tragic adulterous...
of the Grande Galerie du Louvre Scheffer: Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil Vernet: A Mediterranean Port Vouet: Allegory...
of the Grande Galerie du Louvre Scheffer: Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil Vernet: A Mediterranean Port Vouet: Allegory...
of the Grande Galerie du Louvre Scheffer: Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil Vernet: A Mediterranean Port Vouet: Allegory...
Marriage of Cana, and Rogier van der Weyden's Annunciation were not returned. "Paolo Veronese". The Gentleman's Magazine. No. December 1867. A. Dodd and A. Smith...
of the Grande Galerie du Louvre Scheffer: Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil Vernet: A Mediterranean Port Vouet: Allegory...
Inferno. In the piece the entwined bodies of Francesca di Rimini and PaoloMalatesta swirl around in the never-ending tempest that is the second circle...
of the Grande Galerie du Louvre Scheffer: Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil Vernet: A Mediterranean Port Vouet: Allegory...
Consoles the Souls of the Envious (1835 painting) Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil (1835 painting) Dante and Virgil (1850...
Graffiacane Libicocco Malacoda Rubicante Scarmiglione Malebolge Minos Nessus PaoloMalatesta Phlegethon Phlegyas Pietro della Vigna Plutus Pope Boniface VIII Pope...
of the Grande Galerie du Louvre Scheffer: Francesca da Rimini and PaoloMalatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil Vernet: A Mediterranean Port Vouet: Allegory...
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