Malebolge

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of the Divine Comedy, Malebolge (English: /mælˈboʊldʒ/) or Fraud is the eighth circle of Hell. Roughly translated from Italian, Malebolge means "evil ditches". Malebolge is a large, funnel-shaped cavern, itself divided into ten concentric circular trenches or ditches. Each trench is 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.

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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.