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Updated: June 3, 2025
I am of the same mind as Farinata degli Uberti: if any man asks me what is meant by siding with a party, I say, as he did, `To wish ill or well, for the sake of past wrongs or kindnesses." During this short dialogue, Tito had been standing, and now took his leave.
You pass the Church of S. Maria a Ripa just before you enter the city by the beautiful Porta Pisana, but though you may find some delightful works of della Robbia ware there, especially a S. Lucia, it is in the Collegiata di S. Andrea in the lovely Piazza Farinata degli Uberti, that most of the works have been gathered in some of the rooms of the old college.
Farinata is condemned to the most horrible punishment, which to Dante seems just, because in accordance with an accepted code; yet Dante cannot but admire him and cannot really hate him, for there is nothing in him to hate; he is a criminal and yet respected fatal combination!
Such a piece of sacrilege would have been revolting to Farinata; how much more to the group of Florentines whose temper is centrally represented by Dante's, to all of whom their "bel San Giovanni" was dear, at least for its beauty, if not for its sanctity.
As little as he could contrive was he for Pope or Emperor, Black or White, Farinata or Cerchi; banishment came that road. His friend Dante was footsore with exile, halfway over Apennine by this time; Cino knew that for him also the treading was very delicate. Constitutionally he was Ghibelline with his friend Dante, and such politics went well in Pistoja for the moment. But who could tell?
New form of government in Florence Military establishments The greatness of Florence Movements of the Ghibellines Ghibellines driven out of the city Guelphs routed by the forces of the king of Naples Florence in the power of the king of Naples Project of the Ghibellines to destroy Florence opposed by Farinata degli Uberti Adventures of the Guelphs of Florence The pope gives his standard to the Guelphs Fears of the Ghibellines and their preparations for the defense of their power Establishment of trades' companies, and their authority Count Guido Novello expelled He goes to Prato The Guelphs restored to the city The Ghibellines quit Florence The Florentines reform the government in favor of the Guelphs The pope endeavors to restore the Ghibellines and excommunicates Florence Pope Nicholas III. endeavors to abate the power of Charles king of Naples.
They said little of those awful and lovely creations on which later critics delight to dwell Farinata lifting his haughty and tranquil brow from his couch of everlasting fire the lion-like repose of Sordello or the light which shone from the celestial smile of Beatrice.
For this, Machiavelli, in many a bitter paragraph, has execrated the Papacy "the stone thrust into the side of Italy to keep the wound open" but the political creed of the great Ghibellines, Farinata, or Dante himself, shows that Italian republicanism, like French nationality, derives not from papal, but from imperial Rome.
Yet at the same time he had a penchant for civil war, and held in high esteem that Farinata degli Uberti, who loved his native Florence so boldly and so well that he constrained her by force and fraud, making the Arbia run red with Florentine blood the while, to will and think precisely what he willed and thought himself.
Or the lids of those Tombs; square sarcophaguses, in that silent dim-burning Hall, each with its Soul in torment; the lids laid open there; they are to be shut at the Day of Judgment, through Eternity. And how Farinata rises; and how Cavalcante falls at hearing of his Son, and the past tense "fue"! The very movements in Dante have something brief; swift, decisive, almost military.
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