Definition of Bolgia. Meaning of Bolgia. Synonyms of Bolgia

- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- to the seventh bolgia (round; in Italian, "ditch" or "pouch") of the eighth circle of ****, where thieves are punished. In that bolgia, his punishment...
- 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...
- 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...
- appears in Dante's Inferno, in Canto XX, among the soothsayers in the Fourth Bolgia of the Eighth Circle, where augurs are punished by having their heads turned...