| Nino [Ugolino] Visconti | |||||
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 Judge Nino Visconti with Dante Alighieri and Virgil | |||||
| Judge/King of Gallura | |||||
| Reign | 1275–1296 | ||||
| Predecessor | John | ||||
| Successor | Joanna | ||||
| Born | 1265 Pisa | ||||
| Died | August 1296 (aged 30–31) Gallura, Sardinia | ||||
| Spouse | Beatrice d'Este | ||||
| Issue | Joanna, Queen of Gallura | ||||
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| House | Visconti (Sardinia branch) | ||||
| Father | John, King of Gallura | ||||
| Mother | [Chiara?] della Gherardesca | ||||
Ugolino Visconti (died 1296), better known as Nino, was the Giudice of Gallura from 1275 or 1276 to his death. He was a son of Giovanni Visconti and grandson of Ugolino della Gherardesca.[1] He was the first husband of Beatrice d'Este, daughter of Obizzo II d'Este. His symbol was a cock (canting arms on Gallura from Latin: gallus="a cock, rooster").
Nino succeeded his father in Gallura in 1275 or 1276 and spent most of his life alternating time in Pisa and Gallura. His chaplain, a friar named Gomita, was caught taking bribes to release prisoners and so Nino had him hanged.[2] Gomita was placed in the eighth circle of Hell in the Inferno. Nino was commended for his act of justice and piety.
In 1288, he began to share power with his grandfather in Pisa, but the two quarreled. The elder Ugolino tried to enlist the archbishop Ruggieri degli Ubaldini to expel Nino from the city, but the archbishop instead exiled them both and appointed his own podestà and capitano del popolo. Then a Pisan army was sent to take control of Nino's giudicato. The betrayed giudice never set foot in his giudicato again. However, after his exile, Nino Visconti counterattacked Pisa with Genoa, Lucca and the Florentine Guelfs.[3]
In 1293, peace was made and Nino later died in Sardinia.[3] His daughter Joanna succeeded to the title of Gallura and married Rizzardo IV da Camino, Count of Ceneda and Lord of Treviso.
- ^ Lansing, Richard (2000). The Dante Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-203-83447-X.
- ^ Alighieri, Dante; Musa, Mark (1996–2004). Dante Alighieri's Divine comedy. Musa, Mark. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 295. ISBN 0-253-32968-X. OCLC 34411789.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, and Jean Hollander. Inferno. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.[ISBN missing]