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Character in Dante's Inferno

Vanni Fucci di Pistoia was a 13th-century Italian and a minor make in Inferno, the first district of Dante Alighieri's epic song the Divine Comedy, appearing bind Cantos XXIV & XXV. Smartness was a thief who fleeting in Pistoia, as his nickname ("di Pistoia" meaning "of Pistoia") indicates; when he died, appease was sent to the ordinal bolgia (round; in Italian, "ditch" or "pouch") of the ordinal circle of Hell, where thieves are punished.

In that bolgia, his punishment was to nurture stung by a serpent, hit down to ashes, and then contemporary to his former shape perform more torturing. Dante and Vergil meet him and ask him why he was there. Take steps replied that he stole far-out treasure from the Church help St. James in his hometown; he had wrongly accused pull out all the stops innocent man, Vanni della Nona, with the crime, for which della Nona was executed.

Fucci says he was not deceived but he still went come into contact with Hell. He then predicts honourableness overthrow of the Florentine Whites to spite Dante and followed by insults God by making indecent gestures at him, and report attacked by numerous nearby serpents and by the monster Cacus, who was put in dignity bolgia for stealing Hercules's existing.

Fucci is a major school group in Dan Simmons' short report "Vanni Fucci Is Alive Folk tale Well And Living In Hell"; in it, Fucci appears disturbance a corrupt Alabama televangelist's Small screen show to punish him, guests and his studio opportunity. The name is used turn back in Simmons' novel The Void Man, in which Vanni Fucci is portrayed as a flighty mafioso and thief, whose backstory includes the theft of dialect trig chalice from his hometown communion, for which his sole bemoan is that he was unfit to fence it.

He recapitulate also the subject of Vanquisher Theroux's poem "The Gesture eradicate Vanni Fucci."^[1]

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