Angiolello

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In Canto XXVIII of the Inferno, devoted to the sowers of discord, a damned soul asks the pilgrim to remember him among the living and, citing his own circumstances, invites him to also mention an Angiolello, placed next to messer Guido as a victim of the same affair. The Dantean text limits itself to this side-by-side mention, without providing further elements on the historical identity, the role, or the fate of the two. The notes consulted for the same canto recall the context of the sowers of discord, introducing the figure of Pier da Medicina and the practice of the damned who ask to be remembered in the world, but do not extend this commentary to the character Angiolello, whose historical identification remains outside what can be documented with the verses and notes provided.