Organic Italian flours go into the chickpea-flour farinata and chestnut-flour crepes that are wolfed down by Monti's snackers.

The scene which passes between the poet and Farinata is justly celebrated.

Behold Farinata who hath uprisen; thou shalt see him all from the girdle up.

Yonder is Farinata himself in the burning tomb,-pointingto some figure in the shimmering shadows.

Still, Farinata in the burning tomb is exactly what Farinata would have been at an auto da fe.

Compare what Nicholas says of "the record" with Farinata's statement, in Canto X, concerning the foresight of the damned.