Manente degli Uberti (1212 – 11 November 1264), known as Farinata degli Uberti, was an Italian aristocrat and military leader of the Ghibelline faction...

end of the independence of the Florentine Republic. Piazza Farinata degli Uberti, also known as Piazza dei Leoni ("Lions Square"), is marked in its centre...

glares at the Florentines that condemned him to step into exile; while Farinata, who was condemned by Dante to the Inferno, stares off to a distance lowering...