In Inferno Canto X, which Ghibelline leader does Dante meet among the heretics?

In *Inferno* Canto X, Dante meets the Ghibelline leader Farinata degli Uberti among the heretics. Farinata rises from a fiery tomb inside the sixth circle, where Dante places those who denied the soul’s immortality, including the Epicureans.

Farinata was a powerful Florentine Ghibelline politician and military leader. He helped defeat the Guelfs at the Battle of Montaperti in 1260, a victory that briefly returned Florence to Ghibelline control. Dante’s family belonged to the opposing Guelf faction, making their encounter both literary and intensely political.

Their conversation is famous for its proud, confrontational tone. Farinata recalls the hostility between their families and predicts Dante’s exile from Florence. He also insists that, after Montaperti, he alone opposed a proposal to destroy Florence.

The other options belong elsewhere in the poem: Pier della Vigna and Guido da Montefeltro are punished in different bolgias, while Filippo Argenti appears among the wrathful in the fifth circle. Farinata is therefore the canonical answer.