Farinata and Cavalcante — Canto X

Canto 10 of Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Now onward goes, along a narrow path Between the torments and the city wall, My Master, and I follow at his back.

"O power supreme, that through these impious circles Turnest me," I began, "as pleases thee, Speak to me, and my longings satisfy; The people who within the sepulchres Are lying, might they be beheld by any? Already all the covers are uplifted, And no one keepeth guard." And he to me: "They all will be closed up when from Jehosaphat They shall return here with the bodies they Above have left."

"Upon this side have their cemetery With Epicurus all his followers, Who with the body mortal make the soul. But in the question thou dost put to me, Within here shalt thou soon be satisfied, And likewise in the wish thou keepest silent."