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The story of Ugolino, the Cannibal Count

3 min • 2 januari 2022

In Dante’s Inferno (Canto XXXIII, the level of hell where the traitors were punished) he has been described eating the skull of Ruggeri Archbishop, the man who condemned him to die for starving in Muda Tower.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://weirditaly.com/2013/03/26/ugolino-the-cannibal-count/

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