Heresy
Farinata died at Florence in 1264. In 1283 his body and his wife's were exhumed and burned; this posthumous execution was punishment for their heretical religious beliefs, for which they had been condemned following a Franciscan-led inquisition conducted in that year. According to Boccaccio, in his commentary on Dante, the inquisition discovered, among other things, that Farinata denied life after death:
He was of the opinion of Epicurus, that the soul dies with the body, and maintained that human happiness consisted in temporal pleasures; but he did not follow these in the way that Epicurus did, that is by making long fasts to have afterwards pleasure in eating dry bread; but was fond of good and delicate viands, and ate them without waiting to be hungry; and for this sin he is damned as a Heretic in this place.
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| Name | Uberti, Farinata |
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| Short description | Italian aristocrat |
| Date of birth | 1212 |
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| Date of death | November 11, 1264 |
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