Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Il bacio di Paolo Malatesta: il bacio di Lancillotto

Speranza

Dante finds Paolo Malatesta and Francesca in the ramparts of the hell where the lechers are confined, because one day they were reading aside a book dealing with Lancelot of the Lakem one of the Round Table's Knights,  as well with his love for king Arthur's wife, Guinevere, with whom Lancelot committed adultery having Galehault as intermediary of their first contact.

Several times, Paolo Malatesta and Francesca looked each other.

But when they read about the first kiss given by Guinevere to Lancelot, Paolo kissed Francesca and probably both were killed by Francesca’s husband.

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