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===Malebolge===
===Malebolge===
The eighth circle is called Malebolge (which could be translated roughly as 'evil ditches'). It is made up of ten concentric trenches, each of which is home to those guilty of a different form of [[fraud]]:
The eighth circle is called Malebolge (which could be translated roughly as 'evil ditches'). It is made up of ten concentric trenches, each of which is home to those guilty of a different form of [[fraud]]:
[[Image:Mohammed by gustave dore.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Mohammed]] and other sunderers are punished in the eighth circle: ''"Now mark how I do rip me: lo! / How is Mohammed mangled"'' (Canto XXVIII)]]
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These sins are known as minor fraud, as distinct from treachery (see below), which is considered a worse form of fraud. The imaginative, cruel and grotesque punishments of the eighth circle provide some of the most enduring images in the Inferno, and are what most people have in mind when they think of the works of Dante.
These sins are known as minor fraud, as distinct from treachery (see below), which is considered a worse form of fraud. The imaginative, cruel and grotesque punishments of the eighth circle provide some of the most enduring images in the Inferno, and are what most people have in mind when they think of the works of Dante.
[[Image:Gfdyte7y6.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Satan is trapped in the frozen central zone in the Ninth Circle of Hell, Inferno, Canto 34: ''That Emperor, who sways / The realm of sorrow, at mid breast from the ice / Stood forth.'']]
[[Image:Gfdyte7y6.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Satan in the Ninth Circle of Hell: ''That Emperor, who sways / The realm of sorrow, at mid breast from the ice / Stood forth'' (Canto XXXIV)]]
===The ninth circle: Treachery===
===The ninth circle: Treachery===