...ings the more rudely for the simple pathos with which Dante makes Argenti answer when asked who he was, Thou seest I am one that weeps. It is also the one that makes most strongly for the theory of Dante 's personal vindictiveness, and it may count for what it is worth. We are not greatly concerned to defend him on that score, for he believed in the righteous use of anger, and that baseness was its...