Barbaricciaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Barbariccia is one of the demons in the Inferno of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Barbariccia is member of the Malebranche, whose mission is to guard Bolgia Five in the Eighth Circle, the Malebolge. Barbariccia's name means "curly beard" in Italian (from barba=beard, and riccia=curly). It is possible that Dante also alludes to a historical person. Barbariccia seems to be the most important devil after Malacoda as he becomes the "provost" of nine other devils, when Malacoda commands them to escort Dante and Virgil, which can be read out of the following text (the speaker is Malacoda):