But I did not open his eyes, For to abuse him was to do good service. Soul one of your own, whose deeds were so abysmal That his soul already bathes in Cocytus while inferno xxxiii 157 Up above his body appears alive and normal. In 1275 Ugolino della Gherardesca, the Count of Donoratico, a Ghibelline, was exiled from Pisa for plotting to replace Ghibelline rule with Guelph. With the aid of the Florentine Guelphs he returned to Pisa the next year, becoming chief magistrate in 1284, an office he then shared with his grandson, Nino Visconti, the next year. By 1288 the two were feuding, and were forced out of office.
Documents indicate that Anselm was about fifteen at the time.
One interpretation, supported by Ugolino's chewing of Ruggieri's skull, is that he resorted to cannibalism. A less horrible meaning is simply that hunger and not grief finally caused his death. Two islands then belonging to Pisa. Dante often utilizes Thebes as a reference for hate, murder and vengeance. Dante is moving into the third division of Cocytus, named Ptolomea in line 124.