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Canto 33 Dante and Virgil meet Count Ugolino or Ugolino della Gherardesca. While Francesca and Paolo not well-known, Ugolino was famed individual in politics. He was born into one of the most powerful families of 13th century Pisa. Ugolino was an important figure in the Sardinian Kingdom of Cagliari but, after the fall of the dynasty, Ugolino switched his alliances to the Guelf party and eventually returned to Pisa. Upon his return, he seen that Nino Visconti, his nephew had become quite large in the Pisan community. When Ugolino got in power he tried to break a political alliance that was created between Pisa, Florence, Genoa, and Lucca. The split that was created after Ugolino surrendered some castles created party divisions for him and Nino. Ugolino went to shelter himself under the Ghibelline party led by Archbishop Ruggieri who commanded exile of Nino Visconti, Ugolino’s own nephew. Ugolino even betrays his family if he is given the opportunity in remaining in power. “The fourteenth-century historian Giovanni Villani maintains that Ugolino also had his sister’s son, Anselmo di Capraia, poisoned for opposing him politically” (Lansing, 839). Upon gaining insight of Ugolino’s deeds of surrendering the castles the Archbishop began provoking the citizens of Pisa against Ugolino and eventually seized Ugolino and his sons. While imprisoned all three eventually die. In the canto 33 also known as a place where someone who has done treachery against guests. Through thos canto…

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa in the Duchy of Florence; he was the eldest child of six children born to Vincenzo Galilei (April 3, 1520- July 2, 1591), A well-known music theorist and musician. In 1574, he moved to Florence, where he started his education in school. In 1583, Galileo attended the University of Pisa. At his time there he became interested in the world around him and subjects like mathematics and physics. He gained a teaching job at the University of…

In the Ninth Circle of Hell residing in the Second Round, Count Ugolino can be found where those who committed treason against their country are condemned for eternity. Dante sees a sinner gnawing at the head of another sinner. The sinner is revealed to be Count Ugolino and his meal is Archbishop Ruggieri. Count Ugolino explains to Dante why he has ended up in this part of Hell. The readers find out that these two sinners have a past relationship. Count Ugolino is Italian, Dante notices this by…

Galileo Galilei Have you ever wondered what Galileo Galilei did in his life?. Galileo Galilei made astonishing and world changing inventions and improvements to other inventions. His inventions and improvements to other inventions were made in the topics of math, astronomy, and cosmology. Galileo Galilei made significant change in the history of science. Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. After he was born he moved and lived in a town close to Florence, Italy.…

with outstanding educational performance, such as China and Finland. With the U.S. ranked as average when being compared to these countries, many schools and the parents of students agree there is a much needed reform. Thankfully, tests such as the Programme for International Student Assessment allows countries to test their students to determine where their country lacks most in their education. This tests has made it possible for the U.S. to realize its educational standpoint to make changes…

Galileo Galilei had an interesting life. Galileo was born in Pisa on February 15, 1564. He was the first out of six children to be born in his family and his father was, Vincenzo Galilei. Later on in life, he started his education in a nearby monastery. Then in 1581 his father sent him to the University of Pisa to study medicine and philosophy of Aristotle for 4 years. Eventually, he told himself he didn’t like studying medicine, so he decided to do mathematics. With his love of mathematics he…

It is an apparent issue that other countries, other than the United States, tend to score immensely higher when it comes to standardized testing. Based on the tactics teachers use in the classroom and out, shapes whether the student is willing to learn or not. Finland is noted to be one of the countries that supports their students efforts to learn in a unique way. Should The United States be doing the same? Yes, due to the extreme success of Finlands PISA scores, it is accurate to conclude that…

Galileo was born on February 15, in 1564 and died January 8, 1642.his parent Galileo parents were Vincenzo Galilei, and Giulia Ammannati , he had five siblings. His wife's name was Marina Gamba, he had 3 children. He was famous for discovering the four massive moons of Jupiter. He also created the pendulum clock, galileo was a great physicist and astronomer in my opinion. Galileo's young years were pretty hard I would say ,his family was poor but he did do well in school he was very…

a two day writing lesson I taught the second grade students. The focus of this writing lesson was for students to be able identify the overall problem in a reading and find strong evidence that shows how the problem was solved. Then once that strong evidence was found, the students needed to write a written paragraph that answered how the problem was solved. I began teaching this lesson on Tuesday, March 22nd, and began videotaping the last portion of the lesson on March 23rd. This was because…

Since we were going to the city of Pisa, it was a no brainer that we had to go see the Leaning Tower of Pisa. When we arrived to the Piazza dei Miracoli, which is where the tower is located, I was overwhelmed with the amount of tourist trying to capture the impeccable image of themselves trying to make it look they were holding the leaning tower in place. It was impossible for me to snap this picture with no one in the background because there were far too many people trying to do the exact same…