=Fra Diavolo=, the sobriquet of Michel Pozza, a Calabrian insurgent and brigand chief. In 1799 Cardinal Ruffo made him a colonel in the Neapolitan army, but in 1806 he was captured by the French, and hanged at Naples. Auber has a comic opera so entitled, the libretto of which was written by Scribe, but nothing of the true character of the brigand chief appears in the opera. =Fradu´bio= [_i.e. Brother Doubt_]. In his youth he loved Frælissa, but riding with her one day they encountered a knight accompanied by Duessa (_false faith_), and fought to decide which lady was the fairer. The stranger knight fell, and both ladies being saddled on the victor, Duessa changed her rival into a tree. One day Fradubio saw Duessa bathing, and was so shocked at her deformity that he determined to abandon her, but the witch anointed him during sleep with herbs to produce insensibility, and then planted him as a tree beside Frælissa. The Red Cross Knight plucked a bough from this tree, and seeing with horror that blood dripped from the rift, was told this tale of the metamorphosis.—Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, i. 2 (1590). =Frail= (_Mrs._), a demirep. Scandal says she is a mixture of “pride, folly, affectation, wantonness, inconstancy, covetousness, dissimulation, malice and ignorance, but a celebrated beauty” (act i.). She is entrapped into marriage with Tattle.—W. Congreve, _Love for Love_ (1695). =Frampton= (_Major_), the great man of the little village of Hillsborough, and a connoisseur in peach-brandy. Losing money, horses, wagons, and all his negroes except his body-servant, at cards, he blows out his brains in a convenient pine thicket.—Joel Chandler Harris, _Georgian Sketches_ (1888). =Francatelli=, a _chef de cuisine_ at Windsor Castle, Crockford’s, and at the Freemasons’ Tavern. He succeeded Ude at Crockford’s. =Frances=, daughter of Vandunke (2 _syl._), burgomaster of Bruges.—Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Beggars’ Bush_ (1622). =France= (_Everidge_), the unworldly daughter of a worldly mother.—A. D. T. Whitney’s story, _Odd or Even?_ (1880). =Francesea=, daughter of Guido da Polenta (lord of Ravenna). She was given by her father in marriage to Lanciotto, son of Malatesta, lord of Rimini, who was deformed. His brother Paolo, who was a handsome man, won the affections of Francesca; but being caught in adultery, both of them were put to death by Lanciotto. Francesca told Dantê that the tale of Lancelot and Guinever caused her fall. The tale forms the close of Dantê’s _Hell_, v., and is alluded to by Petrarch in his _Triumph of Love_, iii. ⁂ Leigh Hunt has a poem on the subject, and Silvio Pellico has made it the subject of a tragedy. George H. Boker’s play under the same title is also founded upon Dante’s story. Lawrence Barrett as Lanciotto, Louis James as _Pepe_ and Marie Wainwright as _Francesca_ will long be recollected by American theatre-goers.