Ugolino was starved to death as a prisoner of Archbishop Ruggieri. His children begged him to eat them. photo

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27-JUL-2006

Ugolino was starved to death as a prisoner of Archbishop Ruggieri. His children begged him to eat them.

'Father our pain', they said,
'Will lessen if you eat us you are the one
Who clothed us with this wretched flesh: we plead
For you to be the one who strips it away'.
(Divine Comedy Canto XXXIII, ln. 56–59)

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