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 CANTO XXXIII.

this Canto Mr. Hunt describes the meeting with that historic personage, Farinata.

He relates a conversation he had with Dante which interests the explorer.

Farinata tells him also of the burning hardships and similarity in the temperature which he has endured for several hundred years, He remembers but one holiday in all that time, the occasion being a ball game gotten up by a picked nine of American sinners against the world.