Ugolino della Gherardesca

Through thos canto Dante gets to meet souls who were branded as traitors against their country and political party. Dante comes across Ugolino here because he was a traitor to both but the most speculated part of this canto is in which way Dante meets Ugolino. Ugolino is shown gnawing at Archbishop Ruggieri’s brain. In the Canto he gets to expain how the Archbishop had betrayed him, and left him and his sons to die. After enduring this pain, Ugolino explains how he began gnawing at his hand in the cell from the anxiety but after realized it was really from hunger. His sons could not bear to see him like this and offered their bodies as a source of food leaving him speechless. After sometime both of his sons had passed away and he finishes with these words saying “‘Then hunger proved a greater power than grief’” (Inf. XXXIII, 75). This suggesting that Ugolino perhaps had accepted his children’s death and seems that once again if he did consume them he was selfish. Although it is true that he did not have food or much of a choice, Ugolino could have considered the fact that these are his children and ultimately, he would accept his fate of death as…

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 his…

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