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Ruggieri degli Ubaldini

Index: La espera, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 610. El falso problema de Ugolino, NED,Nueve ensayos dantescos. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1982. 106, 108.
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character in Dante

Fishburn and Hughes: "An archbishop of Pisa whose name appears among the traitors in Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno 33). In 1289 Ruggieri betrayed the trust of Ugolino della Gherardesca, then Mayor of Pisa, accusing him of treason; as a result, Ugolino, his sons and grandchildren were starved to death in a tower now known as torre della fame, 'the tower of hunger'." (170)