FRANCESCA DA RIMINI

a daughter Guido da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna. was given in marriage to Giovanni Lame (Gianciotto or Sciancato), of Mala test a, Lord of Rimini, when was concluded between the houses Ravenna and Rimini. The elder of Giovanni, Paole the Hand was sent to Ravenna to fetch Francesca, and the two fell in loye with other. Giovanni found them to- (c. 1285), and killed them both. story, which has many modifications treated in Dante’s Inferno, and also in by Leigh Hunt, Silvio Pellico, Stephen Phillips, and in art by Ary Scheffer, G. F. Watts, and 2, old Fr. province in Rhéne basin on frontier; ancient capital, Besan¢gon; comprised in departments of Doubs, Haute-Sadne, and Jura; conquered by later part at of Burgundy; é split into countships in Middle Ages; avnexed France, 1678. first became 4 prominent p as leader of troops in Algeria; commanded 1st Army Corps at Charleroi, and 5th Army at the battles of the Marne Aisne. Later he commanded an group that saw much heavy in Champagne. On June 19 he succeeded, Guillaumat as commander-in-chief of the Allied armies Baikans, and on Sept. 16 of the year opened € the offensive sive whi which Bulgaria; to sue J for peace. He;