In the footsteps of Count Ugolino

Count Ugolino in prison. Nineteenth-century painting by Giuseppe Diotti

One of the best known passages of the Divine Comedy is the one relating to the story of Count Ugolino , which is narrated in canto XXXIII of the Inferno .

Ugolino della Gherardesca (1210-1289), was a well-known Italian politician of the 13th century destined to a sad end:locked up in a tower with his children, he was left to starve with them (the legend of a possible cannibalism on his part has never been historically ascertained).

Now, on this character that is still obscure in many respects, we could shed a little more light:for six weeks, in fact, it will be excavated in the only undeveloped part of the Lungarni di Pisa, to find what was his home .

To succeed in this undertaking, the instructions provided in this regard in a text dating back to the Middle Ages will be followed ( Photo from:ilruggiero.it

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