The catalogue entry for the exhibition of Joshua Reynold's original painting of Count Ugolino de’ Gherardeschi (c. 1220 - 1289) and his children included lines by Dante. It refers to Canto XXXIII of the Inferno in which the grisly story of Ugolino is told. After seizing control of Pisa, sinking it into a prolonged war with Genoa, and then subsequently betraying the city on several occasions, Ugolino and his children were condemned to prison and death by starvation. Raising a mob against him, the Archbishop Ruggieri (another power-hungry and treacherous individual) had him locked in the tower of Muda, and the keys thrown in the river Arno; Dante introduces Ugolino eating the head of his condemner, the Archbishop.