Paolo e Francesca, is a work of Fausto Maria Franchi’s collection.

Paolo and Francesca. Two of the best known lovers in history. Also targeted by Dante in the Divine Comedy. Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini are two figures of lovers who have become part of the sentimental popular imagination, while also belonging to history and literature. A large part of Canto V of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy is dedicated to them. In the Comedy, the two young men represent the main souls condemned to the punishment of Dante’s hell in the circle of the lustful.