=Ubaldo and Ricardo=, two men sent by Honoria, queen of Hungary, to tempt the fidelity of Sophia, because the queen was in love with her husband, Mathias. Immediately Sophia understood the object of their visit, she had the two men confined in separate rooms, where they were made to earn their food by spinning.--Massinger, _The Picture_ (1629). =Ube´da= (_Orbaneia of_), a painter who drew a cock so preposterously that he was obliged to write under it “This is a cock,” in order that the spectator might know what was intended to be represented.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, II. i. 3 (1615). =Uberti= (_Farinata Degli_), a noble Florentine, leader of the Ghibelline faction. Dantê represents him in his _Inferno_, as lying in a fiery tomb, yet open and not to be closed till the last judgment. =Uberto=, Count d’Este, etc.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516). =Udaller=, one who holds land by allodial tenure. Magnus Troil, in Sir W. Scott’s _Pirate_, was a udaller. =Ude=, the most learned of cooks, author of _La Science de Gueule_. He says, “Coquus nascitur non fit.” That “music, dancing, fencing, painting, and mechanics possess professors under 20 years of age, but pre-eminence in cooking is never attained under 30.” He was _premier artiste_ to Louis XVI., then to Lord Sefton, then to the duke of York, then _chef de cuisine_ at Crockford’s. It is said that he quitted the earl of Sefton, because one of his lordship’s guests added pepper to his soup. He was succeeded by Frascatelli. ⁂ Vatel, we are told, committed suicide (1677), during a banquet given by the Prince de Condé, because the lobsters for the turbot sauce did not arrive in time. =Udolpho= (_The Mysteries of_), a romance by Mrs. Radcliffe (1790). =Ugo=, natural son of Niccolo III. of Ferrara. His father had for his second wife Parisi´na Malatesta, between whom and Ugo a criminal attachment arose. When Niccolo was informed thereof, he had both brought to open trial, and both were condemned to suffer death by the common headsman.--Frizzi, _History of Ferrara_. =Ugoli´no=, count of Gheradesca, a leader of the Guelphi in Pisa. He was raised to the highest honors, but the Archbishop Ruggie´ri incited the Pisans against him, his castle was attacked, two of his grandsons fell in the assault, and the count himself, with his two sons and two surviving grandsons, were imprisoned in the tower of the Gualandi, on the Piazza of the Anziani. Being locked in, the dungeon key was flung into the Arno, and all food was withheld from them. On the fourth day his son, Gaddo, died, and by the sixth day little Anselm, with the two grandchildren, “fell one by one.” Last of all the count died also (1288), and the dungeon was ever after called “The Tower of Famine.” Dantê has introduced this story in his _Inferno_, and represents Ugolino as devouring most voraciously the head of Ruggieri, while frozen in the lake of ice.