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In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of the Divine Comedy, Malebolge (English: /ˌmælɪˈbɒldʒ/ MAL-ib-OLJ, Italian: [ˌmaleˈbɔldʒe]; lit. 'evil ditches') or Fraud is the eighth circle of Hell. It is a large, funnel-shaped cavern, itself divided into ten concentric circular trenches or ditches, each 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.