This is the description from The MET: The subject of this intensely Romantic work is derived from canto XXXIII of Dante's Inferno, which describes how the Pisan traitor Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, his sons, and his grandsons were imprisoned in…
The Statue of Liberty is located in New York City, and it is a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States. It is a figure of Libertas, a Roman goddess of liberty.