Three Faces of Dante’s Francesca in the Prism of the…

« previous article | next article »

DC Field	Value
dc.identifier	ECF_article_92
dc.title	Three Faces of Dante’s Francesca in the Prism of the Imaginific. Tre facce della Francesca dannunziana
dc.contributor.author	Colombo Eva
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/archivio-dannunzio/2014/1/la-lussuriosa-dantesca-nel-prisma-dellimaginifico/
dc.description.abstract	In his tragedy Francesca da Rimini (1901) d’Annunzio refracts the famous figure of Dante’s lustful damned in the prism of his own artistic sensibility giving her characteristics that are tightly connected with his intimate vein. Through a close comparison between the tragedy text and the other works of d’Annunzio (particularly the novel Il fuoco (The flame of life) (1900) two Francesca’s hidden faces emerge: the one brings her near to the mythological figure of Persephone and the other makes her similar to the Foscarina, the female protagonist of Il fuoco. Moreover, a methodical comparison among d’Annunzio’s texts discloses how much the red rose that Francesca hands to Paolo during the first act is part of her, containing the lust and the blood, the love and the death that mark her destiny.
dc.relation.ispartof	Archivio d’Annunzio
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 1 \| October 2014
dc.issued	2014-10-30
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2421-292X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2421-292X/453
dc.peer-review	yes

Research Article
open access peer reviewed

Three Faces of Dante’s Francesca in the Prism of the Imaginific

Tre facce della Francesca dannunziana

Eva Colombo

VIEW PDF DOWNLOAD PDF

abstract

In his tragedy Francesca da Rimini (1901) d’Annunzio refracts the famous figure of Dante’s lustful damned in the prism of his own artistic sensibility giving her characteristics that are tightly connected with his intimate vein. Through a close comparison between the tragedy text and the other works of d’Annunzio (particularly the novel Il fuoco (The flame of life) (1900) two Francesca’s hidden faces emerge: the one brings her near to the mythological figure of Persephone and the other makes her similar to the Foscarina, the female protagonist of Il fuoco. Moreover, a methodical comparison among d’Annunzio’s texts discloses how much the red rose that Francesca hands to Paolo during the first act is part of her, containing the lust and the blood, the love and the death that mark her destiny.

Published

Oct. 30, 2014

Language

permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/2421-292X/453

Copyright: © 2014 Eva Colombo. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

References to this chapter

How to cite