person
Ugolino della Gherardesca
Ugolino
also: Conte Ugolino
Pisan count (d. 1289) imprisoned and starved to death with his sons and grandsons; in Dante's Inferno he gnaws the skull of Archbishop Ruggieri. Rodin sculpted him crawling among his dying children for the Gate of Hell.
Reading notes
- Auguste Rodin §30 Ugolino
Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, who in Dante's Inferno (Canto XXXIII) is starved to death in a tower with his sons; Rodin modelled him crawling among his dying children.