TUTTI GRIDAVANO: “A FILIPPO ARGENTI!” E’L FIORENTINO SPIRITO BIZZARRO IN SÈ MEDESMO SI VOLGEA CO' DENTI.
DANTE, INF., VIII, 61-63.
THEY ALL WERE SHOUTING, "AT PHILIPPO ARGENTI!" AND THAT EXASPERATE SPIRIT FLORENTINE TURNED ROUND UPON HIMSELF WITH HIS OWN TEETH.
Dante meets Filippo Argenti in the Stygian swamp, where angry people are punished. Related to the Adimari, Filippo was a very rich knight, a violent and arrogant man. According to a legend, he was given the nickname Argenti because he used to shoe his horse with silver (in Italian argento). When Dante sees him, the damned are shouting "at Filippo Argenti" and the spirit reacts by biting himself. The poet thanks God for this punishment, because there was bad blood between the family of Alighieri and the one of Filippo Argenti.
Lapide Dantesca: case degli Adimari
Via del Corso 18, Firenze
