Beatrice di Folco Portinari

These few days, I'm starting to get this obsession with Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy - I really want the read the original, unabridged version! I only have a edited, storybook version and "The Penguin Epics" selection of Dante's Inferno.

Anyway, I had use the Heroine Maker game to make my version of Beatrice di Folco Portinari, the girl Dante love. I put together Bea's mortal and angelic self. For her angelic self, I thought I add heavenly, golden roses and her skin pale - being an angel. If you like, you guys can check my other leading ladies from books:


· Eleanora : [link]

· Ligeia and Rowena Trevanion : [link] - though Ligeia herself is not a heroine

· Lucy Wersterna : [link] also from Dracula

· Mina Murray : [link]

· Lenore : [link] - despite being a ghost

· Katrina Van Tassel : [link]

· Hok : [link]

· Dora Spenlow : [link] also from David Copperfield

· Cordelia : [link]

· Juliet Capulet : [link]

· Roxanne : [link]

· May Fielding : [link] also from Cricket on the Hearth

· Arrietty Clock : [link]

· Clara : [link]

· Christine Daaé : [link]

· Eppie Marner : [link]

· Necile : [link]

· Nymah Rose : [link]

· The Princess of Sweet Rhyme and The Princess of Pure Reason : [link]

· Bertha Plummer : [link]

· Agnes Wickfield : [link]

· Princess Pirlipat: [link] - though she is not a heroine

· Rebecca : [link] also from Ivanhoe

· Rowena : [link]

· Adriana (Pearl) : [link]



The Divine Comedy © Dante Alighieri
Game [link] © Azalea's Dolls [link]