The article offers information on presence of Italian Politician Count Ugolino in Dante Alighieri's "Inferno". Topics discussed include Dante's architectonic vision of hell, that prize goes to the treacherous, and the traitor par excellence, Count Ugolino; paleontologist Francesco Mallegni genetic tests match Ugolino's living relatives; and Count of alleged cannibalism and the Count's crimes to the realm of fiction.