The Cannibal Count of Pisa

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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CW: Cannibalism, child death Dante's Inferno presents a stark view of the ninth circle of Hell, the circle reserved for traitors, in which sinners are stuck in agony in a frozen lake. One such sinner is the Ugolino della Gheradesca, a Pisan nobleman who, as Dante imagines, is forced forever to chew through the skull of the man in front of him, an eternal reminder of the crimes he committed in life.

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0:36.3	Listener discretion advised.
0:52.0	According to the medieval Italian writer Dante Allegery, in the lowest circle of hell sits a frozen lake.
0:58.2	At first, that might not sound so bad, kind of a winter wonderland vibe.
1:08.0	That is, until you take into account the countless heads and bodies sticking out of the ice and their screams of eternal agony. Those souls who were condemned to this, the ninth circle of hell, the circle reserved for
1:16.8	traders, were all frozen in various configurations according to the kind and depth of their betrayal.
1:26.1	We get this chilling depiction of hell from Dante's Inferno, the first part of his divine comedy, which he completed around 1321.
1:38.7	The poem is the story of Dante imagining himself journeying through hell with the ancient Roman poet Virgil as his guide, meeting various characters along the way and contemplating the nature of sin and the soul, of course.
1:56.1	In the story, Dante and Virgil make their way through the concentric sections of the lake called Cositus after the mythical Greek
2:07.0	river of lamentation in the underworld and they eventually come upon two men frozen together in the ice, one in front of the other.
2:18.0	Dante thought it was odd.
2:20.0	The men were so close that their heads were practically touching.
2:25.5	As Dante and Virgil got closer, their confusion turned to horror
2:31.2	as they realized that the man behind was in fact continuously gnawing through the skull of the man in front of him,
2:41.0	a gruesome element in their eternal torment.
2:46.0	Aghast, Dante asked the gnawing man who he was and why he had been sentenced to such a fate. The poor soul took a break from his meal,
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