Real
Romena
Master Adam, a counterfeiter in the service of the Counts of Romena, indicates in the circle of the falsifiers the place where he committed the forgery, as recalled in Canto XXX of the Inferno.
Description
In Canto XXX of the Inferno, Master Adam, condemned in the ditch of the falsifiers, points to Romena as the place where he counterfeited the florin, recalling his physical and moral miseries. The verse Inf. XXX 73 ("Ivi è Romena, là dov' io falsai") explicitly places the village as the setting of the monetary forgery. The notes to Canto XXX identify Adam as the counterfeiter of the Counts of Romena, burned at the stake at the time of Dante's adolescence, and describe him as marked by dropsy, with one lip drawn toward the chin and the other upward. A Bolognese document from 1277 records him as "magistro Adam de Anglia familiare comitum Romena," confirming the character's link with that family. The notes to Canto XX also recall Sinon, who will strike with his fist precisely the counterfeiter of the Counts of Romena in the same ditch.
In the text
Linked verses
1 verses| Cantica | Canto | Verso | Testo | Open verse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inferno | Canto XXX | 73 | Ivi è Romena, là dov’ io falsai | Open verse |