Pietro della Vigna
✓ Source-basedfallingItalian jurist and diplomat (1190-1249)
PoliticiansLived 1190 to 1249 · aged 59
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Pietro della Vigna was an Italian jurist and diplomat, who acted as chancellor and secretary (logothete) to Emperor Frederick II. Accused of lèse-majesté, he was imprisoned and blinded, committing suicide soon after. He appears as a character in the Inferno of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
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Dante and Virgilius meet Pietro della Vigna in the forest of Self-Murderers, in Canto XIII of Hell, ca. 1866
The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides, c. 1824-7. William Blake, Tate. 372 × 527mm. Shown is a scene from the Divine Comedy: Dante and Virgil discover Pietro's body encased in a tree.Politicians born in the 1190s 6
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Lived 1190 to 1249 · aged 59
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