In the first half of the nineteenth century, there are Italian works of poetry and theater dedicated to Francesca da Rimini, offering a new Francesca, pure and innocent, as distinct from the lustful sinner of Dante’s Inferno. This Francesca, bearer of positive values, was founded in 1795, with the poem of Jacobin. The article explores the connections among the authors of these new Francesche and Italian Risorgimento.
