Italy: Farinata Degli Uberti (1212 - 1264), Italian aristocrat and military leader. 19th century statue outside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. Sculpted by Francesco Pozzi. (2016)

Farinata degli Uberti (Florence, 1212 – Florence, November 11, 1264), real name Manente degli Uberti, was an Italian aristocrat and military leader, considered by some of his contemporaries to be a heretic. He is remembered mostly for his appearance in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and is mentioned in C.S. Lewis's short 'sequel to The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape Proposes a Toast.

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