CASTILLO, AN INQUIRED DEVORATOR, column by Alejandro Martorell

This phrase is found in one of the songs of the Hell of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. It tells the story, that one of Dante’s contemporaries, Commander Ugolino of Pisa, was betrayed by Bishop Ruggieri and by the macabre work of the bishop; unjustly imprisoned in the company of his sons. The undeserved penalty of imprisonment had an even more atrocious ingredient: Deprivation of food. Ugolino and his sons were prevented from eating food for a …