Bernardin di Fosco

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In Purgatorio, in the second round of the cornice of the envious, Guido del Duca interrupts his own lament for the courteous nobles of the past and asks where certain lords who gave fame to Romagna are. Among these, in Purgatorio XIV, Bernardin di Fosco is recalled, mentioned explicitly in relation to the city of Faenza. His figure is presented alongside that of other local lords united by the fame of liberality and courtesy: according to the note to the canto, the names of these figures would be unknown today had they not been handed down by Dante's verses, which rescued them from oblivion and made them almost proverbial as examples of a courtesy forever lost.