Brewer's: Farinata

or Farinata Degli Uberti. A nobleman of Florence, chief of the Ghibelline faction, placed by Dante, in his Inferno, in a red-hot coffin, the lid of which is suspended over him till the day of judgment. He is represented as faithless and an epicure. (Thirteenth century.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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