Piazza dei Cavalieri

This guide to Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa tells the story of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, blamed for a naval defeat against Genoa and locked in twelve eighty-eight inside the tower behind the square's clock, along with his sons and grandsons, with no food and no key. It follows how Dante later placed Ugolino in the depths of his Inferno, and the rumor that grew from that scene about what a starving man might do to survive. Look for the Torre della Fame in the Palazzo dell'Orologio's brickwork, the building that still carries the story's name.