Parisina

Parisina is a poem written by Lord Byron. It was published on 13 February 1816 and probably written between 1812 and 1815.

For other uses, see Parisina (disambiguation).
First edition title page

It is based on a story related by Edward Gibbon in his Miscellaneous Works about Niccolò III d'Este, one of the dukes of Ferrara who lived in the 15th century. Niccolò found out that Parisina Malatesta, his second wife, had an incestuous relationship with his bastard son Ugo and subsequently had both of them put to death.

In Byron's poem, Parisina and Hugo were engaged to be married before Azo (Byron's version of Niccolò) decided to marry her. Also, Azo sentences Hugo only to death – Parisina's fate is unknown, except for the fact that she is forced to witness Hugo's execution and utters a shriek that indicates approaching madness.

Operas
gollark: IT'S CHARS.
gollark: IT'S NOT BITS.
gollark: roppig allbits/chars/bye frommy meges wold, 'm ure make some pe veryhapy.
gollark: A ITS NO BTS CTUALLY, IT'SCHARACER
gollark: BYTS.NT BTS. THEY RDIFFERENT.
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