Real
Pisa
Pisa is the Tuscan city apostrophized by Dante in the Inferno (XXXIII 79) as «vituperio de le genti», in a passage of the canto of Ugolino.
Description
In the Commedia Pisa is recalled in a celebrated verse of Canto XXXIII of the Inferno, in which Dante addresses the city with one of his most famous invectives, apostrophizing it as «vituperio de le genti». The exclamation «Ahi Pisa» opens the celebrated apostrophe that introduces the account of the tragic end of Count Ugolino and his sons, shut up to die of hunger in the tower of the Muda together with the enemy Ruggieri. Pisa is thus evoked as a historical and moral place, the setting of one of the most dramatic episodes of the poem, in which the city is called into account as the stage for the cruelty that is carried out there.
In the text
Linked verses
2 verses| Cantica | Canto | Verso | Testo | Open verse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inferno | Canto XXXIII | 79 | Ahi Pisa, vituperio de le genti | Open verse |
| Purgatory | Canto VI | 17 | Federigo Novello, e quel da Pisa | Open verse |