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Updated: May 9, 2025
This kind of solo was considerably older than Sileno and the performance of Baccio Ugolino in Poliziano's "Orfeo" was unquestionably of the same type. And this manner of delivering a solo, which Castiglione called "recitar alla lira," was a descendant of the art of singing with lute accompaniment which was well known in the fourteenth century.
He proceeded to bribe Lucca with other strongholds. In the city all was confusion. Ugolino was turned out of the Dictatorship, he became Captain of the People. Not for long, however, for soon he contrived to make himself tyrant again. Now the Genoese, seeing they were like to get nothing out of their prisoners by this, were anxious for a money ransom.
Ugolino himself would come prowling out of a Saturday afternoon to borrow the wherewithal to pay his week's lodging, lest he should be cast out into the streets at nightfall; and it was a common thing for one of the bony boys to appear at breakfast-time with a duplicate of his father's coat, pledged over-night for drink, and without the means of redeeming which he could not pursue his honourable vocation.
"I'm sure he isn't worth so much savagery," Lucy said. "You are like Ugolino and poor Francis is your fiero pasto." James instantly corrected himself. "My besetting sin, Lucy. But I must observe " He applied his glazed eye to her feet "the colour of your stockings, my friend. Ha! a tinge of blue, upon my oath!"
Among these is the head of Ugolino, whom Dante describes as eternally gnawing the head of his enemy, who, after placing him and his three sons in the upper chamber of a strong tower near Florence, threw the key of it into the moat and left them to perish with hunger.
You are of course within your rights. However, I will beg leave to be excused the red pepper of Messer Ugolino." "You prefer coals?" cried Ugolino, starting up. "Good! you shall have them." That was all; but the malign smile upon the dark youth's face gave a ring to the words, and an omen. Late that night Cino was in his chamber writing a ballata.
'Where is the old face? Averil said. 'You look as you did in the fever. Your smile brings back something of yourself. But, oh, those hollow eyes! 'Count Ugolino is Dr. May's name for me: but, indeed, Ave, I have tried to fatten for your inspection. 'It is not thinness, she said, 'but I had carried about with me the bright daring open face of my own boy. I shall learn to like this better now.
You must have a man drubbed if you want to laugh, and do your rogueries with a pleasant grin if you are inclined to heroism. Ridolfo, reading Selvaggia's sheaf of rhymes that night, was for running Master Cino through the body, jurist or no jurist; but Ugolino saw his way to a jest of the most excellent quality, and prevailed. He was much struck by the poet's preoccupation with his sister's eyes.
The respectful gratitude of the Friars Minor required that we should insert all these anecdotes in memory of Cardinal Ugolino, who honored the holy Patriarch of his Order, as well as that of St. Clare, with his affection, his protection, and his liberality, and who surpassed all his former favors ten years afterwards, when he was Pope under the name of Gregory IX.
This came to the ears of Ruggieri, who called the Ghibellines to arms, and at last succeeded in capturing Ugolino and his family, after days of fighting. Well had Marco Lombardo, that "wise and valiant man of affairs," told him, "The wrath of God is the only thing lacking to you."
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