Ugolino and His Sons, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It takes its inspiration from Dante’s Divine Comedy. In Canto 33, Dante describes imprisonment in 1288 and subsequent death by starvation of the Pisan count Ugolino della Gherardesca and his offspring. Carpeaux depicts the moment when Ugolino, condemned to die of starvation, yields to the temptation to devour his children and grandchildren. But when he sees their faces he cannot for he sees himself in them. Ugolino bites his own fingers in grief, and his offspring (mistaking it for hunger) plead with him to eat them instead, and “stay their suffering”
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