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Excerpt from Francesca Di Rimini, in Legend and in History
It is, however, in its main features, historical, though the historian may find difficulty in determining with precision where it becomes necessary to disentangle fiction from fact. This I have endeavoured to do in the following brief account of that pathetic tragedy which Dante has immortalised in the Inferno, and which was destined to be te-enacted upon the dramatic and the lyric stage for all time.
Of the contemporary representatives of the Polenta and Malatesta families, all that is known concerning them will be found in these pages.
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