Francesca da Rimini, a beautiful Italian lady of the 13th century, whose pathetic love story finds a place in Dante's “Inferno”; she was betrothed by her father, the Lord of Ravenna, to Giovanni of Rimini, but her affections were engaged by Paolo, his brother; the lovers were found together by Giovanni and murdered by him.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Francesca, Pistro della * Francesco di Paula