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- divided into ten concentric circular trenches or ditches, each called a bolgia (Italian for 'pouch' or 'ditch'). Long causeway bridges run from the outer...
- lied to him about the bridges over the sixth bolgia. Bolgia 7 – Thieves: Dante and Virgil leave the bolgia of the Hypocrites by climbing the ruined rocks...
- features as the leader of the Malebranche, the twelve demons who guard Bolgia Five of Malebolge, the eighth circle of ****. The name Malacoda is roughly...
- to the seventh bolgia (round; in Italian, "ditch" or "pouch") of the eighth circle of ****, where thieves are punished. In that bolgia, his punishment...
- Claws") are the demons in the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy who guard Bolgia Five of the Eighth Circle (Malebolge). They figure in Cantos XXI, XXII,...
- the Purgatorio. One of the examples of contrap****o occurs in the fourth Bolgia of the eighth circle of ****, where the sorcerers, astrologers, and false...
- stating that their words were the equivalent of excrement, in the second bolgia of 8th Circle of ****. An insincere flatterer is a stock character in many...
- Nicholas III, committed to the Inferno for his simony, in Gustave Doré's 1861 wood engraving (portrait of the Third Bolgia of the Eighth Circle of ****)...
- Comedy. Barbariccia is one of the Malebranche, whose mission is to guard Bolgia Five in the Eighth Circle, the Malebolge. Barbariccia's name means "curly...
- serves as a general introduction. Dante describes the ninth and tenth bolgias in the Eighth Circle of **** as being twenty-two miles and eleven miles...