-
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...
- 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,...
-
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 ****)...
-
mosaics depicting groups of
saints with the
donor pope. Art
historian Claudia Bolgia suggests that the
translation of Mark's
relics from
Alexandria to St. Mark's...
- Inferno, by ****ing the pope,
placing him
within the
circles of Fraud, in the
bolgia (ditch) of the simoniacs. In the Inferno, Pope
Nicholas III,
mistaking the...
