💡l Francesca! Let’s talk about it I’ve just realized that I posted the song breakdown on Twitter and never posted it here 🤦🏻‍♀️ It’s never too late tho, here we go! Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta was a medieval noblewoman of Ravenna. She fell in love with Paolo, the younger brother of her old and deformed husband Giovanni, who she had married only as part of a political strategy. Upon the discovery of her affair with his brother and enraged at their betrayal, Giovanni slew both Paolo and Francesca where they laid. In Inferno, Dante and Virgil meet Francesca and her lover Paolo in the second circle of hell, reserved for the lustful. Here, their punishment is to be blown around through all eternity by forceful winds (🎶 my life was a storm, since I was born, how could I fear any hurricane?🎶), in a similar manner that they allowed themselves to be swept away by their passions. I believe that this song could Hozier’s way of saying that it was all worth it, that they...