-
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...
- 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,...
-
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...
- 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...
- Alighieri's
Divine Comedy poem
Inferno (Canto 30),
Sinon is seen in the
Tenth Bolgia of ****'s
Circle of
Fraud where,
along with
other Falsifiers of words, he...
-
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...
- to the
seventh bolgia (round; in Italian, "ditch" or "pouch") of the
eighth circle of ****,
where thieves are punished. In that
bolgia, his punishment...
- seen by
Dante and his
guide Virgil being punished in ****'s
Eighth Circle (
Bolgia 1) by
being driven to
march through the
circle for all
eternity while being...
- 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...