Dec 27, 2009

Dante's Inferno | Canto 33 Summary and Analysis

New Characters
Count Ugolino della Gherardesca: Guelph leader who ate human flesh; imprisoned in the Tower of Famine; saw sons and grandsons starve

Archbishop Ruggieri degli Ubaldini: Imprisoned Count Ugolino

Friar Alberigo: Soul in Patolomaea, where traitors to their guests reside

Ser Branca d’ Oria: Shade in Patolomaea responsible for murder

Summary
The shade who had eaten of the body of another person begins to speak to Dante. He tells Dante that he is...