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Proserpine

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ16881463 ↗
Source-derived summary

Proserpine may refer to:

Proserpina, the Roman goddess of springtime and wife of Pluto

Arts and entertainment

Proserpine (Lully), a 1680 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

Proserpine (Paisiello), an 1803 opera by Giovanni Paisiello

Proserpine (play), an 1820 verse drama by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Proserpine (Saint-Saëns), an 1887 drame lyrique by Camille Saint-Saëns

Proserpine (Rossetti), a c.

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“Proserpine” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Proserpine, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1680, 1803, 1820, 1887—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Proserpine, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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Why this record matters

“Proserpine” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Proserpine, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16881463. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1680, 1803, 1820 and 1887.

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This entry incorporates text from “Proserpine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.