Outhne: Inferno X
OUTHNE: INFERNO X
Dante & Virgil among the sepulchres
Dante curious about their uncovered inhabitants
Virgil: the tombs will be closed after Judgment Day
Virgil: here you will see the Epicureans, and Farinata
Dante was silent about this wish only to please Virgil
Dante’s first exchange with Farinata:
Farinata’s recognition of a fellow Tuscan
Dante’s fear and Virgil’s rebuke
Farinata’s scornful air and Virgil’s encouragement
Farinata: from whom are you descended?
Dante’s answer and Farinata’s rejoinder
Dante’s similar thrust
interruption: Dante’s exchange with Cavalcante:
Cavalcante’s abject appearance: where is his son?
Dante comes not by his own powers; he is led
he knows Cavalcante from his words and situation
the father assumes his son is dead and falls back
Dante’s second exchange with Farinata:
Farinata now turns Dante’s thrust back on him
why are the Florentines merciless to his family?
Dante: they do not forget the battle of Montaperti
Farinata’s plea: it was he who preserved the city
Dante: what do the damned know of future and present?
Farinata explains their condition in these respects
Dante’s apology to Cavalcante addressed to Farinata
Frederick II and Ottaviano degh Ubaldini punished here
Virgil reassures Dante about his future
coda: resumption of leftward direction in descent