Hannibal (2001): Lecture

The clip lecture from Hannibal (2001) with Giancarlo Giannini, Anthony Hopkins

I want him out of Tuscany fast.
Believe me, he'll be gone from the face of the earth fast-
feet first.
Buona sera, Professore.
Because of his avarice...
and betrayal of the Emperor's trust...
Pier Della Vigna was disgraced, blinded and imprisoned.
Dante's pilgrim finds Pier Della Vigna...
on the seventh level of the Inferno...
and like Judas Iscariot...
he died by hanging.
So Judas and Pier Della Vigna are linked in Dante...
by the avarice he saw in them.
In fact, avarice and hanging are linked in the medieval mind.
This was the earliest known depiction of the crucifixion...
carved on an ivory box in Gaul about A.D. 400.
It includes the death by hanging of Judas...
his face upturned to the branch that suspends him.
Here he is again on the doors of the Benevento Cathedral...
this time with his bowels falling out.
Commendatore Pazzi.
Wasn't easy, but I got this number without telling them why.
Sorry.
Not at all. Welcome.
Please join us.
Thank you.
In this plate...
from the 15th Century edition of the "Inferno"...
Pier Della Vigna's body hangs from a bleeding tree.

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