Sismondi

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In Canto XXXIII of the Inferno, Count Ugolino, during the premonitory dream recounted to Dante, recalls having seen the Gualandi, the Sismondi, and the Lanfranchi, the three principal families of the Ghibelline faction of Pisa, led by the Archbishop of the Ubaldini, launched with their hungry bitches against him. The notes to the canto indicate that the verse is constructed in such a way as to place first, in the persecution, the people, mentioned as bitches, and then the nobles of the city, among whom appear the houses of the Gualandi, Sismondi, and Lanfranchi. The historical note on Count Ugolino further clarifies that in 1288 the Ghibelline faction of Pisa, headed by Archbishop Ruggieri degli Ubaldini and the powerful families Gualandi, Sismondi, and Lanfranchi, rose up against the two lords Ugolino della Gherardesca and Ugolino Visconti, seizing power and thus setting in motion the events that led to the death by starvation of the count and his sons in the tower.