![]() political analysis: the “divided city” of verse 61 and its implications as spelled out in Inferno 28 this canto’s catalogue of Florentine citizens who did bad rather than good - Farinata, Tegghiaio, Iacopo Rusticucci, Arrigo, and Mosca - culminates in Inferno 28.lexical analysis: onta (shame) in Inferno 6 connects to vendetta and civic strife in Inferno 29 and to the definition of ira, triggered by shame, in Purgatorio 17.the lexicon of exile and dishonor, from Boethius’ exile invoked in the Convivio as “la perpetuale infamia del suo essilio” (the perpetual infamy of his exile ) to the shame (”onta”) of the White Guelphs in Inferno 6.while the philosophical treatise gives a pass to Dante’s fellow Florentines - “Poi che fu piacere de li cittadini de la bellissima e famosissima figlia di Roma, Fiorenza, di gittarmi fuori del suo dolce seno” (Since it was the pleasure of the citizens of the most beautiful and famous daughter of Rome, Florence, to cast me out of her sweet bosom ) - the Commedia treats Dante’s exile as an opportunity for consideration of Florence’s moral failures.the shame and dishonor of exile, already described pwerfully in the Convivio. ![]()
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