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title: DIVINE COMEDY - THE COUNT UGOLINO IN THE TOWER

subject date: 2006-06-23

caption: DIVINE COMEDY Inferno, canto XXXIII. "Both hands in pain I bit myself / And that thinking that I fooled by desire / To manicar, immediately arose" (I, XXXIII, 58-60). In an allegorical frame of the work: on the left the Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri (1265 -1321) at the desk, on the right the representation of Count Ugolino, locked in the tower by Archbishop Ruggieri degli Ubaldini, and left with his children to die of hunger (1289). Chromolithography from a series by Egisto Sborgi Editore, Florence 1918

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city: Europa

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

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country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Medioevo

subject century: XIII

subject epoch: Medioevo

technique: Cromolitografia

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file name: FSNgilardi_10276.jpg

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