Ugolino

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Ugolino

when his children die of starvation in prison, he devours them. [Ital. Poetry: Inferno]

See : Cannibalism

Ugolino

treacherous 13th-century count of Pisa, imprisoned and starved to death with his sons and grandsons. [Ital. Poetry: Inferno]

See : Imprisonment

Ugolino

13th-century count of Pisa who treacherously deserted his own party and then twice joined the enemies of his own city. [Ital. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 921]

See : Treachery

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No references found			He clung to one idea -- that of his happiness, destroyed, without apparent cause, by an unheard-of fatality; he considered and reconsidered this idea, devoured it (so to speak), as the implacable Ugolino devours the skull of Archbishop Roger in the Inferno of Dante. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context			Uglegorsk Uglegorsk State Regional Electric Powerplant Uglegorskii Uglekamensk Uglerodovskii Ugleuralskii Uglezavodsk UGLI UGLIAC Uglich Uglich Affair Uglich Reservoir Ugliness Uglov, Fedor Uglov, Fedor Grigorevich Uglovka Uglovoe ugly code Ugly Duchess Ugly Duckling Ugo Foscolo Ugol Ugolev, Aleksandr Ugolev, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Ugolini, Amadeo Ugolino Ugolino della Gherardesca Ugolnye Kopi Ugra Ugrian Ugrians Ugritsy Ugriumov, Grigorii Ugriumov, Grigorii Ivanovich Ugroedy UHDV UHELP UHF UHF tag Uhland, Ludwig Uhlans Uhlbricht sphere Uhlenbeck, Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck, George Eugene uhligite Uhola Festival Uhrig, Robert Uhse, Bodo Ui Ui Byong UI designer			UGMM UGMS UGN UGNA Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc UGND Ugni Blanc UGNN UGO Ugo Betti Ugo Betti Ugo Buoncompagni Ugo Buoncompagni Ugo Buoncompagni Ugo di Segni Ugo di Segni Ugo di Segni Ugo Foscolo Ugo Foscolo Ugo Grotius Ugo Grotius Ugo grozio Ugo grozio Ugo Schiff UGOC Ugol Ugolev, Aleksandr Ugolev, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Ugolini, Amadeo Ugolini, Vincenzo Ugolino Ugolino della Gherardesca Ugolino di Nerio Ugolino of Orvieto Ugolnye Kopi UGOM UGOOD UGOT UGOTW UGOV UGOW UGOWEFO UGP UGP UGPA UGPCC UGPCD UGPD UGPIC UGPL UGPM UGPN UGPR UGPT UGPTI UGR

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