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  Carpeaux - Ugolino
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)

  
 Rodin works
In the 'Divine Comedy', Dante meets Ugolino in the lowest region of Hell, gnawing the skull of his former friend, then fiend Ubaldini: because both men were guilty of treachery, they were condemned to eternal punishment in the ninth Circle of Hell, reserved for traitors.
The painting 'Ugolino' (1806) by Johann Heinrich Fussli (1741-1825), now in the Kunsthaus Zürich, proves that at least Rodin was not the only artist recurring to the Pietà concept for a portrait of the starving Count.
Rodin himself was so convinced of his creation, that he detached the head of one of the sons, and enlarged it seperately in different media; this 'Head of Sorrow' was used for Paolo in 'Fugit Amor'; it also was exhibited as an indepent sculpture and carved in marble.
www.rodin-web.org /works/1876_ugolino.htm   (1184 words)

  
  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ugolino Brunforte
Ugolino entered the Order of Friars Minor at the age of sixteen and served his novitiate at the convent of Roccabruna, but passed most of his life at the convent of
In 1295 he was chosen Bishop of Abruzzi (Teramo) under Celestine V, but before his consecration the pope had resigned and Boniface VIII who suspected Ugolino as belonging to the Zelanti annulled the appointment (see Bull "In Supremae Dignitatis Specula" in "Bullarium Francis", IV, 376.
Most scholars are now agreed on fixing upon Ugolino as the author of the "Fioretti" or "Little Flowers of St. Francis" in their original form.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03011a.htm   (337 words)

  
 Ugolino della Gherardesca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
For this reason Ugolino is known as the "Cannibal" Count and is often depicted biting 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, Ugolino and his Sons by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and other artwork.
Ugolino appears trapped beneath the ice of the Ninth ring in the Inferno as both a damned soul and a punishing demon who gnaws vengefully at the skull of the evil Ruggieri.
Ugolino also had few remaining teeth and is believed to have been in his 70s or 80s when he was imprisoned, making it further unlikely that he could have outlived and eaten his descendants in captivity, as the cannibalism account requires.
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 Ugolino Golf Course - Tuscan golfing at Ugolino
Ugolino was founded on the Via Chiantigiana in 1933 and was designed by British architects Blandford and Gannon who had also designed the course at Monza near Milan.
The course they drew was par 69 but was considered difficult, owing to the ups and downs, the many trees and the small greens.
The location of the course is outstanding, even by the standards of more recent Tuscan golf courses, and contributes enormously to the pleasure of playing here.
www.chiocchio.net /ugolino_golf.htm   (220 words)

  
 Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Ugolino and His Sons (67.250) | Object Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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   (385 words)

  
 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Study Guide
Ugolino della Gherardesca was a Pisan Ghibelline who negotiated with the powerful Guelphs of Lucca and Florence and ceded them three castles.
Ugolino was forced out of the office of chief magistrate of Pisa in 1288, and returned to Pisa at the invitation of the Archbishop Ruggieri, who betrayed and imprisoned him, along with his sons Gaddo and Uguiccione, and his grandsons Anselmo and Nino (nicknamed Brigata).
Of course it is possible that Ugolino was simply too weak to mourn anymore, and that he collapsed into the lethargy which ended in his own death.
www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/inferno/section10.html   (1303 words)

  
 Ugolino Brunforte
Ugolino entered the Order of Friars Minor at the age of sixteen and served his novitiate at the convent of Roccabruna, but passed most of his life at the convent of Santa Maria in Monte Giorgio, whence he is often called Ugolino of Monte Giorgio.
Most scholars are now agreed on fixing upon Ugolino as the author of the "Fioretti" or "Little Flowers of St. Francis" in their original form.
That Ugolino was the principal compiler of the "Actus" seems certain; how far he may be considered the sole author of the "Fioretti" of the primitive "Actus Fioretti" is not so clear.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/brunforte,ugolino.html   (264 words)

  
 Poor Clares   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Ugolino writes that many women have renounced the world and desired to establish monasteries where they would live in total poverty with no possessions except their houses.
The pope decided that Ugolino should accept these estates in the name of the Church and that the houses established thereon should be immediately subject to the pope.
This was Ugolino's intention in drawing up the rule, and it is confirmed by a letter of Innocent IV to Agnes of Bohemia, in which he explains the meaning of the words in question (Sbarales, I, p.
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 In Memoriam - Hyman Edelman
The relief purchased by the Institute, carved in marble, depicted the death by starvation of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, a 13th century nobleman in Pisa.
Ugolino was imprisoned with his sons in 1288 in what became known as the "Tower of Hunger" where they all died.
Ugolino's tribulations were described in gruesome detail a few years later by Dante in Canto XXXIII of his Inferno.
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 Ugolino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
After being made a prisoner during the 13th century wars between Italian cities, and convicted of treason, Ugolino della Gherardesca was imprisoned in February 1289 in the Tower of Hunger in Pisa, along with his two sons and two grandsons.
Ugolino, the last survivor, was condemned to Hell after watching his children die and eating their flesh.
Inspired by the Laocoon in the Vatican Museum, Rodin represented Ugolino seated, biting his hands, his feet flexed one over the other, while his dying children dragged themselves behind him (1860, bronze, Musée d'Orsay, Paris).
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 Conte Ugolino - The Cannibal of Pisa and the fall of the Pisa Naval Power in 14th Century Tuscany
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.
Ugolino, to avoid distressing his children refrains from express his pain and withdraws into himself.
www.tuscanjourney.org /tuscan-characters/conte-ugolino   (849 words)

  
 Ugolino, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1862) | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
In July 1288, the duplicitous Pisan Archbishop Ruggieri imprisoned Ugolino, himself a double-dealing politician, with his two sons and two (or three) grandsons in a tower in Pisa, known afterwards as Hunger; they probably died in March 1289.
Carpeaux has illustrated the moment when the boys see Ugolino chew his hands in rage and believe it is from hunger, the moment when they plead that he eat them - the moment when they put this fatal possibility in his mind.
As well as the Medici tombs, Ugolino's pose imitates one of the damned in Michelangelo's Last Judgment, not to mention the definitive image of the sublime in classical sculpture, the Laocoon group in the Vatican.
arts.guardian.co.uk /portrait/story/0,,914332,00.html   (568 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ugolino della Gherardesca (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Ugolino della Gherardesca[OOgOlE´nO del´lA gArArdA´skA] Pronunciation Key, d.
A leader of the Guelph, or pro-papal, faction in predominantly Ghibelline (pro-imperial) Pisa, he was made podesta [chief magistrate] of Pisa in 1284 to negotiate a peace with Pisa's Guelph enemies.
Ugolino was arrested for treason and shut in a tower to starve to death with his sons and grandsons.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/U/Ugolinod.html   (184 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.
Taking advantage of resurgent ghibelline fortunes in Tuscany, Ugolino connived with the Pisan ghibellines, led by the Archbishop Ruggieri degli Ubaldini; Ugolino agreed to ghibelline demands that his grandson Nino be driven from the city, an order that was carried out--with Ugolino purposefully absent from the city--in 1288.
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)

  
 Di Pietro: Lectura Dantis: Inferno XXXIII
In any event, Ugolino was taken from his house, along with four of his sons (or with two sons and two grandsons), and imprisoned in a tower in the Piazza degli Anziani.
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)

  
 Ugolino, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1862) | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
In July 1288, the duplicitous Pisan Archbishop Ruggieri imprisoned Ugolino, himself a double-dealing politician, with his two sons and two (or three) grandsons in a tower in Pisa, known afterwards as Hunger; they probably died in March 1289.
Carpeaux has illustrated the moment when the boys see Ugolino chew his hands in rage and believe it is from hunger, the moment when they plead that he eat them - the moment when they put this fatal possibility in his mind.
As well as the Medici tombs, Ugolino's pose imitates one of the damned in Michelangelo's Last Judgment, not to mention the definitive image of the sublime in classical sculpture, the Laocoon group in the Vatican.
books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,913646,00.html   (577 words)

  
 Cannibal Count Ugolino
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 finds Ugolino gnawing on a skull, and Ugolino says that it is the skull of Ruggieri, the erstwhile friend who had betrayed and imprisoned him.
Living members of Ugolino's family cooperated with the investigation in the hopes of removing the stigma of Dante's allegations from the family name, and now Professor Mallegni has announced that his findings exonerate the count.
www.mmdtkw.org /VUgolino.html   (838 words)

  
 Circolo del Golf dell'Ugolino
HANDICAP : The Ugolino Golf Club requires that all players (gentlemen and ladies) have a certified maximum handicap of 36.
Visiting players will be required to display membership cards or a declaration letter from their own golf club.
MARSHAL : The Club Marshal, identified by the RULES OFFICIAL sign on the golf car, has full authority on the golf course.
www.golfugolino.it /nuovo/eng/giocare_ugolino_e.htm   (346 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Gregory IX
election by compromise and empowered Cardinals Ugolino and Guido of Preneste to appoint the new pope.
In January, 1217, Honorius III made Ugolino plenipotentiary legate for Lombardy and Tuscia, and entrusted him with preaching the crusade in those territories.
At the coronation of Frederick II in Rome, 22 November, 1220, the emperor took the cross from Ugolino and made the vow to embark for the Holy Land in August, 1221.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06796a.htm   (2956 words)

  
 Week 8: Dante's Inferno
In 1288, Ugolino made a pact with the Archbishop Ruggieri but the Archbishop betrayed him and had Ugolino imprisoned in a tower with his sons and grandsons.
Some people have interpreted Ugolino's words to mean that he finally broken down and ate from their corpses.
I saw two spirits frozen in a hole, so close together that the one head capped the other, and the uppermost set his teeth into the other, as bread is chewed, out of hunger, there where the back of the head joins the nape.
www.mythfolklore.net /2003frametales/weeks/week08/pages/21.htm   (829 words)

  
 PISA istory, Count Ugolino Della Gherardesca, Storia Dante - Localita Storia Eventi Cronaca Medio Evo News provincia ...
Ugolino shudders with despair at seeing his heirs die before his eyes, until “poscia, più che ’l dolor, potè ’l digiuno” (“Then hunger prevailed over grief”).
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.
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)

  
 UGOLINO VIVALDO - Online Information article about UGOLINO VIVALDO
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century, Sorleone de Vivaldo, son of Ugolino, undertook a See also:
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 Ugolino — FactMonster.com
At length a conspiracy was formed against him, and in 1288 he was cast with his two sons and two grandsons into the tower of Gualandi, where they were all starved to death.
N.B. Count Ugolino was one of the noble family of Gheradesca, and should be styled Ugolino Count of Gheradesca.
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 Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
His father Rinaldo, Lord of Sarnano in the Marches, belonged to an ancient and noble family of French origin, from which sprang the famous Countess Matilda.
Ugolino entered the Order of Friars Minor at the age of sixteen and served his novitiate at the convent of Roccabruna, but passed most of his life at the convent of Santa Maria in Monte Giorgio, whence he is often called Ugolino of Monte Giorgio.
That Ugolino was the principal compiler of the "Actus" seems certain; how far he may be considered the sole author of the "Fioretti" of the primitive "Actus Fioretti" is not so clear.
www.ccel.org /ccel/herbermann/cathen03.html?term=Ugolino%20Brunforte   (269 words)

  
 Dante
In line 23 Ugolino indicates that the tower in which they died was named after their ordeal "the tower of hunger" (rather than "of cannibalism"), and that Dante placed Ugolino in that part of the Inferno in which traitors (not cannibals) are punished.
This is, precisely, of what Dante accuses Pisa in his invocation in the case of Ugolino and his sons, irrespective of whether the accusation that Ugolino betrayed the fortresses is based on fact, or only on hearsay.
Thus, in the poem "Ugolino" there may be quite valuable information to support some of Crisafulli's claims; but since he did not bother to bring it to his readers' attention, I must ignore it.
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