Toynbee "Gualandi"
noble Ghibelline family of Pisa, mentioned, with the Sismondi and Lanfranchi, by Count Ugolino (in Circle IX of Hell) as having been foremost among those whom the Archbishop Ruggieri had enlisted against him, [Inf. xxxiii. 32].

Buti, who lectured on the D. C. in Pisa, says of these three families:

Queste sono tre case di gentiluomini della citta di Pisà, di grande onore e di grande potenzia nell'antico; e benchè ancora sieno, pur sono molto mancate come l'altre famiglie antiche e l'altre cose.

The tower in which Ugolino and his sons and grandsons were starved to death, and which thence got the name of 'Torre della Fame' was called after this family 'la torre de' Gualandi alle Sette Vie'. It stood in the Piazza degli Anziani, nearly on the spot where the modern clock-tower in the Piazza dei Cavalieri now stands. It is said to have been destroyed in 1655. [Ruggieri, Arcivescovo: Ugolino, Conte.]

©Oxford University Press 1968. From A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante by Paget Toynbee (1968) by permission of Oxford University Press