1478 Assassination Solved. The Humanist Did It.

NYT ^ | March 6, 2004 | FELICIA R. LEE

[Henchman]

I guess the Duke did it - what happened to his butler?

[stop_fascism]

Pretty darn prescient, seeing how the Inferno is set in 1300, and this plot is in 1478!

[tcuoohjohn]

Well...Just damn. Here I try to make an observation that on a surface level looks erudite, literary amd historical and I run headlong into a classicist, medievalist, Dante expert who with wit and clarity debunks my entire theory.

I was hoping that I might get by with this bit of literary conjobbery but I am hoist by my own petard here. It wasn't intentional it was merely laziness by failing to check the dates.

But you gotta admit it would have been kinda cool if Dante had put the Duke of Urbino gnawing on the head of his son.

I checked the reference in the Inferno and I flubbed the dub badly. It wasn't The Duke of Urbino but Count Ugolino whom Dante consigns to the ninth circle of hell for treachery. Now in a just world the Dante update, Inferno V2.01, would have Count Ugolino gnawing on the head of the Duke of Urbino.

[stop_fascism]

I know the feeling. I'm always getting my history a little wrong here. Here's the story:

Count Ugolino and Archbishop Ruggieri were friends, conspiring together to overthrow their government. However, Ruggieri had other plans. He seized control of the city and imprisoned Ugolino with his sons and grandsons in the "tower of hunger."

Ugolino then eats the remains of his children to stay alive. In the inferno Ugolino is munching Ruggieri throughout eternity. Just punishment since Ugolino had betrayed his party, the Guelphs, and Ruggieri had betrayed him.

Interestingly, in 2002 they found remains that were thought to be U. and his children. They indicated that the real U. had died of a blow to his head, and would not have been able to eat his children, since he was toothless.

[tcuoohjohn]

Yes....and The absence of Ron Popeil's slicer, dicer, and shredder in Florence circa 1300 makes it highly improbable that Count Ugolino gnoshed on his progeny. Beyond the notion of family cuisine issues, the dentition issue alone kinda clinches it.

Now..about the history of dentures...

Thanks for the update...

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Italy’s Medici Murder Plot Solved
Discovery News | 2-24-2004 | Rossella Lorenzi
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Italy’s Medici Murder Plot Solved
Discovery News | 2-24-2004 | Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 02/25/2004 10:53:57 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1085318/posts