Scarmiglione

Scarmiglione is one of the twelve named Malebranche in the 8th Circle of Hell's 5th Gulf, where corrupt politicians are immersed in burning pitch, the Malebolge, from the Inferno of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

In popular culture

Final Fantasy series:
- In the Dawn of Souls and 20th anniversary remakes of Final Fantasy I, Scarmiglione is the name of an optional boss.
- In Final Fantasy IV, Scarmiglione is the name of the Archfiend of Earth^[1]
- In Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, Scarmiglione is again a boss.
- In Dissidia, Scarmiglione is a summon.
- In Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Scarmiglione is one more time a boss.
In the 2012 video game Resident Evil: Revelations, Scarmiglione is a large, hulking shark-based creature.
The card game Yu-Gi-Oh! features a series of cards called Burning Abyss, which is based on the Divine Comedy, one of which is known as "Scarm, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss".
In the popular Manga and Anime series, Fairy Tail, a legal magical guild is named Scarmiglione.
In Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Scarmiglione appears as a boss.

References

↑ Greenhut, Michael (2025). Final Fantasy Villains: From FF1 to FF16. White Owl. ISBN 9781399079471. Retrieved August 17, 2026.

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Dante's Divine Comedy

Characters
and locations

Inferno

Circles of Hell	First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth
Malebranche	Alichino Barbariccia Cagnazzo Calcabrina Ciriatto Draghignazzo Farfarello Malacoda Rubicante Scarmiglione

Purgatorio

Paradiso

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Architecture	Palacio Barolo (Palanti, 1923) Danteum (Terragni, 1938)
Cinema	L'Inferno (1911) Dante's Inferno (1924) Dante's Inferno (1935) The Dante Quartet (1987) A TV Dante (1989) The Deep and Dreamless Sleep (2006) Dante's Inferno (2007) Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010) La commedia di Amos Poe (2010) Dante's Hell Animated (2013) Botticelli Inferno (2016 documentary)
Comics	Demon Lord Dante (1971) Jimbo's Inferno (2006) Dante's Inferno (2023) Gert's Inferno (2023)
Illustrations	Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli (1485) Jean Giraud (Paradiso, 1999)
Literature	The Story of Rimini (1816) La Comédie humaine (1830–1850) Earth Inferno (1905) The Cantos (1917–1962) As I Was Going Down Sackville Street (1937) The System of Dante's Hell (1965) Inferno (1976) The Dante Club (2003) Inferno (2013)
Music (classical)	Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (Liszt, 1849) Dante Symphony (Liszt, 1857) Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky, 1876) Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninoff, 1904) Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai, 1914) Gianni Schicchi (Puccini, 1918) The Divine Comedy (Smith, 1996) Inferno (Ronchetti, 2020)
Music (modern)	Inferno (1973 album) "Dante's Inferno" (1995 song) Dante XXI (2006 album) A Place Where the Sun Is Silent (2011 album)
Paintings	The Barque of Dante (Delacroix, 1822) The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides (Blake, 1827) Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil (Scheffer, 1835) Dante in Hell (Flandrin, 1835) The Barque of Dante (Manet, 1850s) Dante and Virgil in the Ninth Circle of Hell (Doré, 1861) Pia de' Tolomei (Rossetti, 1868) Paolo and Francesca da Rimini (Rossetti, 1885) La barca de Aqueronte (Hidalgo, 1887) La Laguna Estigia (Hidalgo, 1887)
Sculptures	The Gates of Hell (Rodin, 1917) The Kiss (1882) The Thinker (1904)
Video games	King of Demons (1996) Devil May Cry series (2001) Bayonetta series (2009) Dante's Inferno (2010) The Lost (cancelled) ULTRAKILL (2020)

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