Francesca da Rimini Quotes

Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (1255–ca. 1285) was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna. She was a historical contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

Francesca da Rimini
- World
- Hell
- Suspect
My Roman girlfriend translates bits from Italian into English. It is sublime.

Francesca da Rimini

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

Francesca da Rimini
- Love
- Journey
- Dress
Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

Francesca da Rimini
- Beauty
- Search
- Signs
A lot of the images in my work are a kind of visual diary of places I've been, what I've seen, heard, smelt.

Francesca da Rimini
- Places
- Visual
- Diary
Occasionally I still do a bit of stuff with people I met there seven years ago. It's like looking up an old lover IRL. But on the whole I've personally exhausted that avenue of research, so it no longer draws me. I did write a novel as a kind of document of that era.

Francesca da Rimini
I am ashamed to be Australian in these times.

Francesca da Rimini
- Times
- Ashamed
- Australian
I was working as an art and tech researcher in '84. At that time there had been a small government program of assistance for artists for at least three or four years. I was working with Super 8 film then. And video in '85 and public radio in the early '80s.

Francesca da Rimini
- Art
- Working
- Researcher