Archivio d’Annunzio Rivista di Studi comparati

Journal | Archivio d’Annunzio
Journal Issue | 1 | 2014
Research Article | Three Faces of Dante’s Francesca in the Prism of the Imaginific

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

Tre facce della Francesca dannunziana

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.


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Published Oct. 30, 2014 | Language: it

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.

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