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title: DIVINE COMEDY - COUNT UGOLINO IN THE TOWER WITH HIS CHILDREN

subject date: 2006-06-23

caption: DIVINE COMEDY Inferno, Canto XXXIII. ''I bit both my hands in pain/ And thinking that I had done it out of desire/ To eat, I immediately rose'' (I, XXXIII, 58-60). Count Ugolino, locked in the Torre della Muda by Archbishop Ruggieri degli Ubaldini, is left with his children to die of hunger (1289); an episode from the poem by Dante Alighieri (14 May/13 June 1265 – night between 13 and 14 September 1321). Chromolithograph, detail from a postcard from a series by Egisto Sborgi Editore (entire in FSNgilardi_10276.jpg), Florence circa 1918.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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object name: 56661

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continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Dieci

licence: RF

subject century: XIII

subject epoch: Medioevo

technique: Cromolitografia

id: 18503

file name: FSNgilardi_56661.jpg

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