Jacopo del Cassero

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Madonna del Latte
and funerary epigraph placed above the tomb of Jacopo del Cassero.

Jacopo del Cassero (Fano, 1260 - Oriago, 1298) was a magistrate and condottiero from late medieval Italy. He appears as a character in Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio.

Life

Jacopo del Cassero was born in

Ghibellines of Arezzo. Here is where he probably met Dante.[1]

Jacopo defended

Este family.[1] Despite this, while he was in Padua on the banks of the Brenta, near the marshes that surrounded the castle of Oriago, he was reached by assassins sent by Azzo VIII and was wounded in the leg and groin. He sought shelter in a swamp where he bled to death.[1]

Today his remains rest in the Church of San Pietro in Episcopio in

Madonna del Latte
.

In Dante's Divine Comedy

Jacopo del Cassero appears as a character in the Divine Comedy, composed between 1308 and 1321, where he is featured in canto 5 of Purgatorio alongside Pia de' Tolomei and Bonconte da Montefeltro.

Dante the pilgrim meets Jacopo among the souls who were victims of violent deaths and repented for their sins in the very last moments of their lives.[1] When these souls first take notice of the pilgrim, they are amazed by his mortal status, and thus flock around him to tell him of their stories. When Jacopo steps forward, he asks Dante to make the truth known to his relatives so that they pray for him and thus his time spent in Ante-Purgatory is shortened. He then proceeded to tell the pilgrim of the moment of his death.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Maria Grazia Paolini, DEL CASSERO, Iacopo, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 36, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1988.
  2. ^ Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio 5.79-84.
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