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No "bolgia" of the hell invented by the sombre imagination of the great poet could have surpassed, in torment, the

A Siren Thomas Adolphus Trollope 1851

Citizen-driven congressional investigations into the politicization of the Department of Justice, for example, spurred the resignations of many key Bush administration officials, including the mild-mannered gatekeeper of the first bolgia of Hell, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Naomi Wolf: It's Time to Hold Democratic House Leaders in Contempt 2008

The best example of such farcicality occurs in the eighth circle, fifth bolgia, where officials, traffickers in public offices, or unjust stewards are immersed in boiling pitch.

Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 1902

Sefrou, among the ragged figures shuffling past us, there were some few with bags of gold in their walls and rich stuffs hid away in painted coffers, but for patios and flowers and daylight there seemed no room in the dark _bolgia_ they inhabit.

In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899

"Pray, Sir Poet, which bolgia was set apart for those who are lost by the ` peccato della gola? 'or is a bilious fit in the more immediate future bolgia fearful enough?"

A Siren Thomas Adolphus Trollope 1851

"It is not so bad a bolgia as that appointed some other sins," said the Conte Leandro, with mouth stuffed with cake, as he moved out of room.

A Siren Thomas Adolphus Trollope 1851

La confusione piu caotica, il sudiciume piu nauseante, l'andirivieni continuo di soldati e di operai armati, le grida, le parole sconce, le bestemmie, che ivi risuonano, rendono quella, che fu la residenza prediletta dei re di Baviera, una vera bolgia infernale.

EzineArticles 2010

In Dante Alighieri's first book of the Divine Comedy, The Inferno, he places the falsifiers, counterfeiters and liars in the eighth circle, 10th bolgia.

Daily News-Record 2009

In Dante Alighieri's first book of the Divine Comedy, The Inferno, he places the falsifiers, counterfeiters and liars in the eighth circle, 10th bolgia.

Daily News-Record 2009

The torments of that bolgia will be carried out with diabolical versions of the orchestral instruments (see the right panel of Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights to get an idea).

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