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Malebolge

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The name given to the eighth circle in Dante's "Inferno," as consisting of "evil pits," which the name means, 10 in number, for those guilty of frauds: contains seducers, flatterers, simonists, soothsayers, bribers and receivers of bribes, hypocrites, robbers, evil advisers, slanderers, forgers.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Malebolge'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​m/malebolge.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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