Ciacco

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Ciacco ([ˈtʃakko]) is one of the characters in the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri that was not yet well defined by historians. This is how he presents himself to Dante when he is in Hell:

"Voi cittadini mi chiamaste Ciacco; per la dannosa colpa de la gola, come tu vedi, a la pioggia mi fiacco."	"Ye citizens were wont to call me Ciacco; For the pernicious sin of gluttony, I, as thou seest, am battered by this rain."
—Dante Alighieri. Inferno, VI, 52–54 (1321)	—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)

This way introducing himself allows us to interpret it in various ways, but one of the oldest commentators of the Comedy suggests a derogatory nature of this name: "Ciacco is said to be a pig's name, hence he was called this way for his gluttony."

External links

• Novel VIII of the Ninth day of the Decameron

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decameron. Trans. J. G. Nichols. New York: Everyman's Library/Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Print.

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