10 Facts About Iacopo Rusticucci

Iacopo Rusticucci was a Guelph politician and accomplished orator who lived and worked in Florence, Italy in the 13th century.

Iacopo Rusticucci is realized historically primarily in relation to the Adimari family, who wielded much power and prestige in thirteenth-century Florence, and to whom it is thought Iacopo Rusticucci was a close companion, representative, and perhaps lawyer.

Thirteenth-century documents indicate that Iacopo Rusticucci received payment from the city of Florence for his leadership in a political-military endeavor .

Iacopo Rusticucci received payment on behalf of a member of the Adimari family, a transaction indicative of the kind of role—lawyer, representative—Rusticucci likely assumed in his relations with the family.

Also, and despite not knowing his origins or what became of his estate posthumously, Iacopo Rusticucci is mentioned in a document which records a list of the destruction inflicted upon Guelph property during Ghibelline domination in Florence.

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Iacopo Rusticucci is memorialized in Canto XVI of Dante's Inferno in the ring of the sodomites for his crimes against nature and therefore God .

Iacopo Rusticucci will suffer here for all of eternity in the company of two other men of political and social prominence: Tegghiaio Aldobrandi, a member of the aforementioned Adimari family, and Guido V Guerra, of the high-ranking and powerful Conti Guidi family.

Iacopo Rusticucci first introduces the two men with him, both Guelphs of noble lineages and high political rank when they were alive.

Iacopo Rusticucci then introduces himself as one who suffers with the sodomites through the fault of his wife.

Either way, Iacopo Rusticucci explains his presence in this, at the time deemed disgraceful, circle of hell as not being entirely his fault.