Ugolino did not show remorse towards his family and once they died he feasted on the corpses of his children.1 A number of parallels are present within these two stories of lust and hate. While reading both Cantos one may notice a similarity between a twisted form of a relationship/partnership between Francesca; Paolo and Ugolino; Ruggieri. In the second circle of hell, Francesca tells Dante how her love of Paolo struck her while she weeps, “But if you feel such longing/ to know the first root of our love,/ I shall tell as one who weeps in telling./” (V.
Ugolino did not show remorse towards his family and once they died he feasted on the corpses of his children.1 A number of parallels are present within these two stories of lust and hate. While reading both Cantos one may notice a similarity between a twisted form of a relationship/partnership between Francesca; Paolo and Ugolino; Ruggieri. In the second circle of hell, Francesca tells Dante how her love of Paolo struck her while she weeps, “But if you feel such longing/ to know the first root of our love,/ I shall tell as one who weeps in telling./” (V.