The Story of Rimini: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Story of Rimini, credited to Leigh Hunt, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Story of Rimini by Leigh Hunt. Read in English by Peter Tucker [img]http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/mgpropeller.gif\[/img\] A long poem telling the tragic story of Francesca da Rimini, the duped and adulterous bride, inspired by the character in Dante's Inferno. Published in 1816 and dedicated to Lord Byron, it is considered the pinnacle of Hunt's poetic achievements. Hunt, though having fine artistic sensibilities, was not placed among the first rank of lyric poets, many of whom he championed however. The Story of Rimini was written in prison, where he spent two years for slander of the Prince Regent, and is dramatically and vividly told, with much evocative scene-setting and careful portrayal of emotional conflicts. ( Peter Tucker)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Story of Rimini
• Author credits: Leigh Hunt
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:25:44

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• tragedy
• adultery
• dante
• duplicity

Track guide

1. 01 - Canto 1 — 16:46
2. 02 - Canto 2 — 12:19
3. 03 - Canto 3 — 29:46
4. 04 - Canto 4 — 26:53

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