To the depths of Hell, to see the giant triple-headed Lucifer eating Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius. Then as dawn draws near, back to the world above.

The final canto of the Inferno takes Dante to see Lucifer himself, after which Virgil guides him back to the surface of earth.

Count Ugolino was a leading and treacherous politician, who could only be trusted to betray others. He was left to die in prison of starvation.