Repenting To A Heretic: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 94 - 121a

Walking With Dante · Mar 28, 2021 · 34m

We finish our time with Farinata with a discussion that gets stranger by the minute. There's definitely a camaraderie between our pilgrim and this Ghibelline warlord.The grander question? Is there a camaraderie between our poet and Farinata?There are many strange things in this passage toward the back of INFERNO, Canto X. 1) Farinata's discussion of how the damned see time. 2) Dante's desire to be absolved of something--but what? 3) Our pilgrim's attempts to mitigate the sufferings of the damned. And 4) our pilgrim as a peacemaker, someone who finally gets a Ghibelline to talk to a…