Families and factions
Gualandi
A Pisan family of the Ghibelline faction, recalled by Dante as one of the three principal houses that, together with Archbishop Ruggieri degli Ubaldini, rose up against Count Ugolino.
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In Canto XXXIII of the Inferno the Gualandi are named alongside the Sismondi and the Lanfranchi, forming the trio of Ghibelline Pisan nobles who, in Ugolino's premonitory dream, appear to him as hungry dogs ready to tear him apart. The notes to the canto indicate that the tower in which Ugolino was imprisoned with his sons and grandsons took its name precisely from the Gualandi family, since the building was their property. The same historical tradition cited in the notes reports that in 1288 the Ghibelline faction, led by Archbishop Ruggieri degli Ubaldini and the powerful families of the Gualandi, Sismondi, and Lanfranchi, rose up against Ugolino and his grandson Ugolino Visconti, seizing power in Pisa.
In the text
Linked verses
1 verses| Cantica | Canto | Verso | Testo | Open verse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inferno | Canto XXXIII | 32 | Gualandi con Sismondi e con Lanfranchi | Open verse |