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Boccaccio depicts him as a ‘good brigand’ in the second tale of the tenth day of Decameron. Dante grants him a place amongst the characters mentioned in Purgatory in his Divine Comedy (Purgatory VI, lines 13-14).
Ghino was killed in the first half of the 14th century whilst trying to stop a fight between foot soldiers and peasants.
Benvenuto da Imola, one of his contemporaries, said of him:
"he was not as bad as some people write but was an admirable, great and rigorous man".
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Curiosities
Bettino Craxi assumed the name of Ghino di Tacco when writing his political analyses and articles for the newspaper Avanti!, which was the daily paper for the Italian Socialist Party.
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