Malebolge, 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 (1) seducers, (2) flatterers, (3) simonists, (4) soothsayers, (5) bribers and receivers of bribes, (6) hypocrites, (7) robbers, (8) evil advisers, (9) slanderers, (10) forgers.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Maldive Islands * Malebranche, Nicholas