Lo! Farinata ... his brow
Somewhat uplifted, cried ...
“In that affray [i.e. at Montaperto, near the river Arbia]
I stood not singly ...
But singly there I stood, when by consent
Of all, Florence had to the ground been razed,—
The one who openly forbade the deed.”
Dante, Inferno, x. (1300).
Like Farinata from his fiery tomb.
Longfellow, Dante.