Before Romeo and Juliet, Paolo and Francesca Were Literature's Star-Crossed Lovers, Arts & Culture

Centuries after Italian poet Dante published "The Divine Comedy," Romantic artists and writers reimagined the tragedy as a tale of female agency

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Watch Star Crossed Lovers - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet before Shakespeare: Four Tales of Star-Crossed Love - Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies

Two Star-Crossed Lovers for Valentines Day: Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta. - Art History Today

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Paolo and Francesca in nineteenth-century art: from Dante's Commedia to painting

Star-crossed lovers: Romeo and Juliet in art

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DRAGON: Shakespeare / Romeo and Juliet / Act 2, Scene 2

Here, the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare's play by the same name meet on the balcony Stock Photo - Alamy

Paolo and Francesca in nineteenth-century art: from Dante's Commedia to painting

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The story that inspired 'The Kiss