Few people realize that Auguste Rodin's famous sculpture The Kiss actually depicts Italian lovers: thirteenth-century noblewoman Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, the brother of her hunchbacked husband, Giovanni. Giovanni later discovered their betrayal and murdered the couple, an event immortalized in Dante's Inferno.
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