Count Ugolino: Cannibalism, Betrayal, and the Darkest Scene in the Inferno
By Lucy Bamboo I first read Canto XXXIII of Dante’s Inferno on a winter afternoon. Three weeks later, I was still thinking about it—not in the academic way literature often haunts us, but in the way genuine horror does. Count Ugolino della Gherardesca gnawing the skull of Archbishop Ruggieri is the image that broke something … Read more