New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-01
TART A weesly Illustrated Journal FIN year. Tome
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1,ART A wcesly Illustrated Journal Fiih year. Tome
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The last quarterly volume OF LIrt Ior the
wear 1879 is far from showing any falling OF from the
excellence of the volumes that have cOue before On Tue
contrary We find IN the tex al least, decided growth
n interest and value. The whiting hitherto has GER
family not bren as IL * IN the case u the
Gazette DIES Beat,rArts. the strong point 81 EATl
TO speak first of the text; Al article by MF. C1ares
Yr,rc the author Of the splendid work on enicc, WIN
the republication OF which Mcssr'. Charles scrlhucrs
sons reioccd our holiday has an essay on the
,ory NJ Fraucesca da Rimini and Pnoo Malat sta. the
lovers iomortzed by Dante the Fifth Canto Of the
Inferno The essay which runs IN short instruments
through several numbers OF RArt seeks 10 put us IN
nossession OF the entire body Of evidence 20 the
facts OF the famous story, ana MI friarte
boa done his WORK ~ most thorough
way plantirg ms foot firmly AZ every step on some
piece of documentary evidence II Ii true that the
clusion reached Is familiar 10 students. and 10 be
found In 80 popular u book as Leigh Hunts "Storics
from the italian Poets" published in 1916 but Leigh
Hunt merely summarizes the iGc's obtained; be does
not tell us how they obtained, service Which NJ
Yriarte does for completely to leave nothing for
future explorers Stated briefly possible the facts
seer TO be these; Francesca the htcr Of Guido
di Lanberto da P0enta, the Lord Of Iavcnna. she
married by proxy to Giovanni, surnamed the Lame
| or Hlpshot, OF the sons OF Malatesta da
| yerucchio Lord Of Rmini. This marriage was agreed
upon by Giovanni and the father OF Francesca either
one of the conditions OF truce between the two lords
who had been at with another, or according
n theory directly contradictory rs reward FOR help
given 10 Guido by Giovanni. In either case. Fran
cesca WAS the passive instrument OF her fathers Will
her own consent to the marriage was not asked. Her
pridc however equal 20 her beauty, and friend
her father assuring him that If his daughter should
acc Giovanni-a brave and able man. but fierce,
ugly and dc,0rmcf-she would never marry him.
| we'd
aonoe brother PaOlo should Ravenna,
marry Francesca rs proxy aud take her home With him
"a hs bride. Pa0O came 10 Raycnna IN pursuance ~
tbis agreement and Francesca seeing him from win
dow and servant telling her That he was to be her
| husband conceived passion for hIm. and gladly saw
berael married hin. She was not undeccived ill the
manning oftrr the marriage when waking she saw rot
paoIo lint Giovanni rise from her side. Eleven years
oft.r thie Giovanni then filling the office Of podcsa
| oo,,c distant town. warned that all not wen NJ
bo,ue returned 20 Rmini, found his brother Paolo In
Encesca, room and sew them both They were buried
In ono grave and two hundred years later the grave
was opened and the bodies were found lying together in
suten Garments the silk itself still entire. So far the
storv Is familiar but certain facts detailed ny Mr.
| Yriarte mot rs have seen, for the frat
| ume) place O somewhat different light upon
| the tragedy PaoO Maatesta, Francesc1s lover
| was a married man. having espoused In 1863 when
he was seventeen Orabe Beatrice daughter aud heres
~ rrberto Count OF Chagolo then In her fifteenth year
| nv this wife who survived him he had two children
| Francesca. VINO was between fifteen AM seventeen
| at the lime OF her marriage, was twenty-eieh
| NJ the time Of her death, and left II daughter
by her husband, Giovanni, who was nance
Copcordia after his mother. Her relation with Paot
had then continued years, and both the guilt
partes had children Boccaccio who gives the cleares
account OF the tragedy declares that Giovanni did
mean to kill his wife, but aiming the dagger stroke a
his brother, Francesca threw hersef between and re
ceiyed the frs, blow after which Giovanni, Infatuated
b>oauss he ored his rife Than NE, slew his brother
and leaving the bodies where they lay returned TO tn
| Mace from whence he had been summoned. He YER
shortly married again, and had by his second wifi
| three sons and two daughters Mr.. Yriarte's art
Gle is illustrated with some excellent Wood-cut'
views of places connected with this tragic story Mr.
Couraod carries still further in these pages earne
investigation begun by him some time ago In tn
| Gazette des Beailz Arts the subject OF Leonardo
equestrian statue Of Francesca sforsa. Their