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Inferno Describe Farinata and His Use of Language

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Dante has to learn to use his gift for poetry to be fruitful and multiply ie. That is laymen clergy lovers wagers of war politicians and scholars are all collected into one place and punished for their worst and most human attributes. Inferno Farinata And Another Soul Talk To Dante From The Tomb He is sophisticated and talks in a dignified grammar. . The character who makes the prophecy is Farinata Degli Uberti the leader of the Ghibellines faction in Florence who twice defeated the Guelphs. He is a citizen and he utters his request to Dante in the name of their homeland. Towering erect with lifted front and chest He seemed Inferno greatly to despise. Circle 6 Inferno 10 Farinata cuts an imposing figure--rising out of his burning tomb from the waist up and seeming to have great contempt for hell--when Dante turns to address him in the circle of the heretics Inf. The Opportunists the Vestibule of Hell Characters and Objects...