Michele Zanche (1203 - Sassari, 1275) was an Italian politician, best known as a character in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, where he is mentioned in...
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Purgatorio VIII – for accepting bribes to let prisoners escape) and Michele Zanche (a corrupt Vicar of Logodoro under King Enzo of Sardinia). He offers...
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by Dante in the Divine Comedy because of his treacherous murder of Michele Zanche, his father-in-law, in 1275. Brancaleone Doria ruled the Giudicato of...
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Giudicato of Torres, and its last capital. After the assassination of Michele Zanche, the latter's last ruler in 1275, Sassari became subject to the Republic...
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were in his custody. For this he was hanged. Among the barrators with Michele Zanche, "a dir di Sardigna le lingue lor non si sentono stanche" ("their tongues...
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death in Bologna, Michele Zanche usurped power and ruled in the city, and is sometimes considered an unofficial judge of Torres. Zanche himself was later...
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Franco Branca Doria 25. Preziosa di Lacon 6. Bernabò Doria 26. Michele Zanche 13. Caterina Zanche 27. 3. Valentina Doria Doria 28. Tedisio Fieschi 14. Federico...
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