A demon or devil figure in Italian literature and medieval texts, often depicted as mischievous or grotesque.
From Italian, derived from medieval European demonology. The term appears in Dante's Inferno as one of the demons guarding the eighth circle of Hell.
In Dante's Inferno, Alichino is one of the ten Malebranche demons with absurdly funny names—Dante used grotesque comedy in Hell itself, giving demons names that sound almost ridiculous to modern ears, mixing terror with dark humor.
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