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"I saw them all fall one by one, as the fifth and sixth day passed. And I, by then gone blind, groped over their dead bodies. Though they were dead, two days I called their names. Then hunger proved more powerful than grief." - Count Ugolino


Count Ungolino is one of the damned in which Dante must either punish or absolve for "The Damned" achievement. He is encountered in the circle of Treachery.

Description

Count Ungolino was an Italian nobleman and politician whose life was sewn together only by the fibers of treachery. Always pitting one man against another as blood spilled, he thought of no one other than himself. He had conspired with Archbishop Ruggieri to betray the town of Pisa. Ironically Ruggieri turned on Ugolino after his son was accidentally murdered and rallied the villagers against Count Ugolino and set fire to his area of refuge. Count Ugolino surrendered and he alongside his sons and grandsons were locked up and the guards threw away the key resulting in their ultimate death from starvation.








Trivia

  • In "The Inferno", Dante and Virgil witness the soul of Count Ungolino, frozen within the ice of Cocytus' second round: Antenora. He is gnawing on the head of his lifelone foe, Archbishop Ruggieri, and he tells Dante and Virgil his sad story on how Archbishop Ruggieri turning on him resulted in Count Ugolino's ultimate imprisonment and death from starvation.
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