... . He writes further that this is an act of injustice against the city one lives in, for they reject those that surround them. This runs parallel to Dante's depiction of Piero delle Vigne, who committed suicide after falling out of favour with Emperor Frederick II. Dante writes, "my spirit, at the taste of disdain, believing by death to flee disdain, made me unjust ... ...

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