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Manente degli Uberti (1212 – 11 November 1264), known as Farinata degli Uberti, was an Italian aristocrat and military leader of the Ghibelline faction in Florence. He was considered to be a heretic by some of his contemporaries, including Dante Alighieri , who mentioned Farinata in his Inferno .
Farinata degli Uberti (died Nov. 11, 1264) Florentine nobleman who became the leader of the Florentine Ghibellines, the proimperial party. According to Dante ( Inferno, canto X), Uberti alone dissuaded the members of the Ghibelline coalition from razing the city of Florence, which they had just captured. Uberti became chief of the Ghibellines ...
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Epicurus Greek philosopher. 341-270 b.c. founder of the Epicurean school, which held that the goal of man should be a life characterized by serenity of mind and the enjoyment of moderate pleasure. Farinata Farinata degli Uberti; famous leader of the Ghibelline party of Florence. Guido Guido Cavalanti, poet and friend of Dante; also Farinata's ...
[8] Dante subsequently devotes much of Inferno 10 to staging encounters with two Epicurean souls who inhabit one tomb and who are Florentines of the previous generation: one is Farinata degli Uberti, the great Ghibelline leader in the battle of Montaperti, who died the year before Dante’s birth (1212-1264); the other is Cavalcante de ...
Manente degli Uberti, meglio noto come Farinata, è stato un generale italiano. Appartenente a una tra le famiglie ghibelline più antiche e importanti di Firenze, è citato da Dante Alighieri nel sesto canto dell'Inferno e incontrato successivamente nel decimo tra gli eretici.
As they do, Virgil recalls an old prophecy from the days of Jehoshaphat regarding the resurrection of the dead. They are greeted by Farinata degli Uberti, with whom Dante engages in a conversation ...
Farinata degli Uberti, also known simply as Farinata, was one of The Damned who Dante must punish or absolve for "The Damned" achievement/trophy. He was encountered in the circle of Heresy. "Tuscan Aristocrat and military leader who believed that the soul dies with the body, denying life after...
