![]() Within the Inferno, the demons provide some moments of satirical black comedy. The demons are dishonest and malicious: the promise of safe conduct the poets have received turns out to have limited value (and there is no "next bridge"), so that Dante and Virgil are forced to escape from them. The troop hook and torment one of the barrators (identified by early commentators as Ciampolo), who names some Italian grafters and then tricks the Malebranche in order to escape back into the pitch. ![]() Many of the bridges were destroyed in the earthquake that happened at the death of Christ, which Malacoda describes, enabling the time this takes place to be calculated. When Dante and Virgil meet them, the leader of the Malebranche, Malacoda ("Evil Tail" ), assigns a troop to escort the poets safely to the next bridge. Vulgar and quarrelsome, their duty is to force the corrupt politicians ( barrators) to stay under the surface of a boiling lake of pitch. Hailed as one of the greatest works of literature throughout history, The Divine Comedy is known not only for its structure, its themes and motifs, and its characters but also for Alighieri’s. ![]() They figure in Cantos XXI, XXII, and XXIII. ![]() The Malebranche ( Italian: "Evil Claws") are the demons in the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy who guard Bolgia Five of the Eighth Circle ( Malebolge). ![]() The Malebranche threaten Virgil and Dante, portrayed by Gustave Doré. ![]()
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