Ottavo cerchio - Bolgia IX - Seminatori di discordia

Nineteenth painting in the 'Inferno di Dante Alighieri' series.

The eighth circle of Hell, also know as Malebolge, is a large, funnel-shaped cavern, itself divided into ten concentric circular trenches or ditches. Each trench is called a bolgia (Italian for "pouch" or "ditch").

The ninth bolgia hosts the sowers of discord: they are hacked and mutilated for all eternity by a large demon wielding a bloody sword;