Hunger



     Meet Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, his two sons, and two grandsons.  Born in Pisa, he was an admiral and Podesta of Pisa.  I assume that means "Boss".  After an interesting life, he and his boys were thrown into a tower and starved to death.  Legend has it that he ate the children, something a modern autopsy does not support, thank God.  Dante put him in hell gnawing on his captor's skull, a certain Archbishop Ruggieri. Above is Jean Baptiste Carpeaux's superb marble family snapshot. Below is William Blake's take-


     And now, Henry Fuseli's version_


     Finally, Auguste Rodin weighs in with a charming interpretation from La porte de Enfer-


    That's all, Folks!

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