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Malebolge
Eighth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the location in Divine Comedy's Inferno. For the programming language, see Malbolge. For the character from Spawn comics, see Malebolgia.
In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of the Divine Comedy, Malebolge (English: /ˌmælɪˈbɒldʒ/ MAL-ib-OLJ, Italian: [ˌmaleˈbɔldʒe]; lit. 'evil ditches') or Fraud is the eighth circle of Hell[1]. It is a large, funnel-shaped cavern, itself divided into ten concentric circular trenches or ditches, each called a bolgia (Italian for 'pouch' or 'ditch'). Long causeway bridges run from the outer circumference of Malebolge to its center, pictured as spokes on a wheel. At the center of Malebolge is the ninth and final circle of hell, known as Cocytus.
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