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	Ugolino della Gherardesca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ugolino was born in Pisa, the member of the Sardinian origin family of della Gherardesca.
		For this reason Ugolino is known as the "Cannibal" Count and is often depicted gnawing at his own fingers ("eating of his own flesh", a reference to his horrible sin) in consternation, as in the sculpture The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, in Ugolino and his Sons by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and in other artwork.
		Ugolino also had few remaining teeth and is believed to have been in his 70s when he was imprisoned, making it further unlikely that he could have outlived and eaten his descendants in captivity, as the cannibalism account requires.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Count_Ugolino (1220 words)

	Carpeaux - Ugolino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Ugolino dell Gheradesca, whose story is told in Canto 33 of Dante's Inferno, was an Italian nobleman in the Guelph party who was made podesta of Pisa in 1284.
		In a conspiracy contrived by the Ghibelline Archbishop Ruggeri, Ugolino was accused of having betrayed his town by being negligent in battle.
		The Ugolino group was acquired for the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the centenary of its first exhibition (in 1967).
	www.studiolo.org /MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm (1819 words)

	Cannibal Count Ugolino
		The Count was a leader of Pisa's Guelph (pro-Papal) faction in the seemingly interminable internecine battles that consumed all the northern Italian cities in those days.
		The Guelphs were routed, and Ugolino, along with two sons and two grandsons (nephews, in some versions of the story), were imprisoned in Gualandi Tower, one of the medieval towers overlooking Piazza dei Cavalieri, which is still the central Piazza of Pisa.
		Dante, in Canto 33 of his Inferno (http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/dante/dant-ugo.html) meets the Count in the lowest level of hell and discusses the case.
	www.mmdtkw.org /VUgolino.html (838 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Ugoli’no,
		Count of Pisa, deserted his party the Ghibellines, and with the hope of usurping supreme power in Pisa formed an alliance with Giovanni Visconti, the head of the Guelphic party, who promised to supply him secretly with soldiers from Sardinia.
		In 1284 Genoa made was against Pisa, and Count Ugoli’no treacherously deserted the Pisans, causing their total overthrow.
		N.B. Count Ugolino was one of the noble family of Gheradesca, and should be styled Ugolino Count of Gheradesca.
	www.bartleby.com /81/16913.html (188 words)

	Rodin works
		Today, Ugolino della Gherardesca, the man who for centuries has been accused of the most macabre of crimes - eating his own children and grandchildren - finally has a chance to have his name cleared.
		Count Ugolino, who Dante writes about in the 33rd canto of the Inferno, belonged to one of the most important families of the Tuscan nobility, whose lands included several counties near Pisa.
		In the late 13th century, Count Ugolino switched his allegiance from the Ghibellines to the Guelfs and became Pisa's tyrannical master.
	www.rodin-web.org /works/ugolino_no_cannibal.htm (593 words)

	Conte Ugolino - The Cannibal of Pisa and the fall of the Pisa Naval Power in 14th Century Tuscany
		They are the bones of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, who was supposed to be buried there since 1289, together with the bones of other four people - his children and nephews.
		In history the story of the Count Ugolino is directly connected to the fall of the Pisa naval strength in the 14th century, when the fleet was at its height and it was present in all Mediterranean ports from Provence to the richest Palestinian towns.
		At that time, Count Ugolino, who was already 70, was at the head of 10 battle galleys posted at the mouth of the Arno river to prevent Genoa's attack on Pisa.
	www.tuscanjourney.org /tuscan-characters/conte-ugolino (849 words)

	Dante's Inferno
		Count Ugolino is damned to Malebolge, or the ninth circle of Hell, for those who have sinned for treachery.
		Count Ugolino symbolizes the human trait that is linked to his sin, which is the quality of being a traitor.
		Count Ugolino is trying to put all the blame on the Archbishop, when indeed they were both involved in their criminal act, so he is showing his treacherous human trait even in Hell when he is talking to Dante.
	www.mediaworkshop.org /mhss/nest/dante_inferno/quiri.html (796 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Bones exhumed to verify Dante's cannibalism tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		REMAINS believed to be those of a 13th-century Italian count accused of cannibalism in Dante's Inferno have been exhumed to determine the truth of the story.
		Dante suggested that Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, accused of treason and imprisoned without food in a tower in Pisa in 1288, was forced by hunger and despair to eat his two grown sons and fellow inmates, Gaddo and Uguccione.
		This week a tomb in the family chapel in Pisa was opened by Ugolino's direct descendant and namesake, Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, a cousin of the Duchess of York's friend Gaddo della Gherardesca.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/06/28/wdant28.xml (314 words)

	Tuscan Newsletter about tuscany
		They are the bones of the Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, supposed to be buried there since 1289, together with the bones of other four people - his children and nephews.
		In the history, the story of the Count Ugolino is immediately connected to the fall of the Pisa naval strength in the XXXIII century, when its fleet was at his highest splendor and it was present in all the Mediterranean ports, from Provence up to the farthest and richest Palestinian towns.
		At that time, the Count Ugolino, who is already 70, is at the head of a tenth of galleys at the mouth of the Arno river, to prevent Genoa's direct attack to Pisa.
	www.accommodationintuscany.com /colors/articolo.php?lingua=eng&id=74 (754 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Gregory IX
		After the accession of Innocent III to the papal throne, Ugolino, who was a nephew of Innocent III, was successively appointed papal chaplain, Archpriest of St. Peter's, and Cardinal-Deacon of Saint' Eustachio in 1198.
		After the death of Pope Innocent III, 16 July, 1216, Ugolino was instrumental in the election of Pope Honorius III on 18 July.
		After the death of Pope Honorius III (18 March, 1227), the cardinals again agreed upon an election by compromise and empowered three of their number, among whom were Ugolino and Conrad of Urach, to elect the new pope.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06796a.htm (2970 words)

	National Day of Remembrance : 11 September 2002
		Ugolino was regarded as a traitor to his native Pisa.
		The Count and his male descendants are sealed into a tower and starved to death.
		Count Ugolino and Saint Maximilian represent very distinct responses to the enormity of human evil.
	www.shrinesf.org /homilies/hom11sep02.htm (761 words)

	Count Ugolino didn't eat his own dead sons
		PISA (Reuters) - Science may rewrite history if bones found under an Italian church prove to be those of 'Cannibal Count Ugolino', one of the darkest historical figures to make an appearance in Dante's 'Inferno'.
		An Italian palaeontologist says his work will show that Ugolino was not slowly starved and driven to eat the flesh of his own dead sons as Dante wrote, but killed by a blow to the head after five months in prison.
		Initial bone and soil studies led him to believe that the skeletons do indeed belong to the count and his family, but Mallegni is awaiting the results of DNA testing early this year before announcing a final conclusion.
	scholieren.nrc.nl /extra/engels/2002/022.shtml (228 words)

	The Ultimate Count Ugolino Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The Pisan "Cannibal" Count Ugolino Gherardesca was a historical personage best known from Dante's fictional depiction of him in Inferno.
		According to Dante, the prisoners were slowly starved to death and before dying Ugolino's children begged Ugolino to eat their bodies, which he did after being driven mad with hunger.
		Ugolino appears in the Inferno as both a damned soul and a punishing demon who gnaws vengefully at the skull of the evil Ruggieri.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Ugolino (366 words)

	VillaniBk7e
		Count Ugolino, before the departure of Judge Nino, to the end he might hide his treachery when he had planned the banishment of the judge, departed from Pisa, and went to one of his manors in the country, which was called Settimo.
		count was called by all lord of Pisa, and when he was in greatest state and happiness, he prepared a rich feast on his birthday, and invited thereto his sons and grandsons, and all his lineage and kinsfolk, both men and women, with great pomp in dress and ornaments, and preparations for a great festival.
		The count taking the said Marco, showed him all his grandeur and possessions, and the preparations for his feast; and this done, he asked him: “Marco, what thinkest thou of all this?” The sage answered and said unto him at once: “You are better prepared for evil fortune than any noblemen of 282
	www.elfinspell.com /VillaniBk7e.html (2212 words)

	Dante's Inferno - Circle 9 - Cantos 31-34
		Ugolino's story, the longest single speech by one of the damned, is Dante's final dramatic representation in the Inferno of humankind's capacity for evil and cruelty.
		Count Ugolino della Gherardesca earned his place in Antenora--the realm of political traitors--for a series of betrayals against Pisa and her political leadership.
		The traitor, however, was then himself betrayed: upon Ugolino's return to Pisa, Ruggieri incited the public against him (by cleverly exploiting Ugolino's previous "betrayal of the castles") and had the count--along with two sons (Gaddo and Uguiccione) and two grandsons (Anselmo and Brigata)--arrested and imprisoned.
	danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu /utopia/circle9.html (2768 words)

	ACSH > Facts & Fears > Archives
		Among them is one Count Ugolino, damned for the crime of eating his own sons while they were imprisoned with him for treason.
		Ugolino's eternal punishment is to feast in Hell upon the brains of Archbishop Ruggieri, the man who condemned him and his family, pausing only to tell his horrible tale to Dante.
		Pretty nasty stuff, but according to a Reuters article, an Italian paleontologist thinks he has dug up the Ugolino clan (identified by a scroll in the grave) and found that the Count was not a cannibal (he didn't even have teeth) and that he died of a blow to the head after months in prison.
	www.acsh.org /factsfears/newsID.340/news_detail.asp (486 words)

	FREE MonkeyNotes Study Guide Summary-The Divine Comedy:The Inferno by Dante Alighieri(Dante's Inferno)-CANTO XXXIII ...
		He reveals that he is Count Ugolino and the soul he is chewing on is Ruggieri the Archbishop.
		Ugolino relates how his family was starved to death in their tower prison.
		Friar Alberigo is Alberigo di Ugolino dei Manfred, he was one of the Jouial Friars and from the town of Faenza.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDivine108.asp (2242 words)

	Dante's Inferno
		In Count Ugolino’s case, he is frozen with the Archbishop Ruggieri “in a single hole, and so pinched in by the ice that one head made a helmet for the other”(XXXII, 125-126).
		When Dante interacts with Count Ugolino, it appears that Ugolino wishes to tell his story, if his words “may be a seed that bears the fruit of infamy” for the archbishop (XXXIII, 7-8).
		Count Ugolino wants Dante to share his story among the living, so that the living may see that he too was affected by treachery.
	www.mediaworkshop.org /mhss/nest/dante_inferno/sabrina.html (820 words)

	Di Pietro: Lectura Dantis: Inferno XXXIII
		Count Ugolino was a Gherardeschi, a member of one of the most prominent families of Pisa.
		As a portent of the horrible fate that awaited Ugolino and his sons, the door was locked and nailed shut and the key was thrown into the Arno.
		Ugolino's dream is prophetic in hindsight for it configures the actual events of his capture and provides a frame for retelling the story to Dante.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Italian_Studies/LD/numbers/01/dipietro.html (3487 words)

	Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Ugolino and His Sons (67.250) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Ugolino, the character that galvanized peoples' fantasies and fears during the second half of the nineteenth century, appears in Canto 33 of the Inferno.
		Ugolino and His Sons was completed in plaster in 1861, the last year of his residence at the French Academy in Rome.
		Upon his return to France, Ugolino was cast in bronze at the order of the French Ministry of Fine Arts and exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1863.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/carp/hod_67.250.htm (391 words)

	HUGELYN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Ugolino was imprisoned for eight months with his two sons and two grandsons, and all starved to death in the Tower of Famine in Pisa in March 1289.
		Dante places Ugolino and Ruggieri among the traitors in the second division of the Ninth Circle of hell, Inf XXXIII.1-90.
		Ugolino is frozen above Ruggieri in one hole, from which he gnaws on the archbishop's head.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/H/hugelyn.htm (174 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| The Divine Comedy Volume I: Inferno \| Dante Alighieri
		Count Ugolino tells the story of being imprisoned along with his children for betraying his political allies; all of them die of starvation.
		Instead of sympathy for Ugolino, the pilgrim expresses outrage at the horrible death of Ugolino's innocent children.
		After hearing Ugolino's story of betrayal, the pilgrim betrays another sinner by making a false promise, telling him that if he does not obey the sinner's request to remove the frozen tears covering the sinner's eyes, he will drop below the ice.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/inferno_gbf.html (2313 words)

	Count Ugolino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Count Ugolino and Archbishop Ruggieri were friends, conspiring together to overthrow their government.
		Ugolino realizes that not only are they not ever leaving this cell, but their jailors have no intention of feeding them.
		By the sixth day, with nothing eaten, Count Ugolino has gone blind and emaciated from the hunger.
	www.angelfire.com /ak/Nyquil/Dante/Ugolino.html (138 words)

	Inferno [Hell]. Canto XXXIII. Dante Alighieri. 1909-14. The Divine Comedy. The Harvard Classics
		—The Poet is told by Count Ugolino de’ Gherardeschi of the cruel manner in which he and his children were famished in the tower at Pisa, by command of the Archbishop Ruggieri.
		The Count Ugolino, to effect his purpose, united with the archbishop and his party, and having betrayed Nino, his sister’s son, they contrived that he and his followers should either be driven out of Pisa, or their persons seized.
		He was immediately compelled to surrender; his bastard son and his grandson fell in the assault; and two of his sons, with their two sons also, were conveyed to prison….
	www.bartleby.com /20/133.html (1114 words)

	UGOLINO DELLA GHERARDE... - Online Information article about UGOLINO DELLA GHERARDE...
		Visconti died soon afterwards, and Ugolino, no longer regarded as dangerous, was liberated and banished.
		Genoa in 1284, Count Ugolino was given the command of a See also:
		But that party having revived once more, the archbishop obliged both Nino and Ugolino to leave the city, and had himself elected podestd and capitano del popolo.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DAH_DEM/DELLA_GHERARDESCA_UGOLINO_c_122.html (972 words)

	PISA istory, Count Ugolino Della Gherardesca, Storia Dante - Localita Storia Eventi Cronaca Medio Evo News provincia ...
		Pisa is the setting for the tragedy of Ugolino, and the episode closes with Dante’s invective against the city, “vituperio de le genti” (“shame of all people”), a den of traitors and ferocious murderers, for whom the poet augurs the fate of being drowned and submerged by the waters of the river Arno.
		But Dante’s poetic account does not mention that the Count was seventy years old, that his sons were adults, that his twenty-five-year-old grandson Nino the Brigand (note the nickname) had already committed a murder.
		e condition of Ugolino’s remains suggest that he was the first to die, and his teeth were in such a bad state that it is highly unlikely that he could have become a cannibal.
	www.pisaonline.it /ulisse/eng/manoscritti.htm (1399 words)

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