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{{Short description|Character in Dante's Divine Comedy}}
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[[Image:Inferno Canto 22 verses 125-126.jpg|thumb|Ciampolo escapes back into the pitch]]
'''{{lang|it|Ciampolo}}''' (also '''{{lang|it|Giampolo}}''', "John Paul") is the accepted name of a character in [[Dante]]'s ''[[The Divine Comedy|Divine Comedy]]''.

Ciampolo appears in Canto XXII of the [[The Divine Comedy#Inferno|Inferno]], where he is a [[Graft (politics)|grafter]] in the fifth ditch of the eighth circle. Ciampolo is hooked by the devils (the {{lang|it|[[Malebranche (Divine Comedy)|Malebranche]]}}, "Evil Claws") who patrol that ditch, and pulled out of the boiling [[Pitch (resin)|pitch]] where the grafters are immersed, which represents their sticky fingers and corrupt deals. Threatened by the devils, Ciampolo tells Dante the identity of some of the other grafters punished there. Ciampolo eventually tricks the devils, and makes his escape back to the boiling pitch.

Dante does not identify Ciampolo by name, but his name was provided by early commentators. Nothing else is really known about him other than the information provided by Dante: that he was born in [[Kingdom of Navarre|Navarre]], that his father was a [[wikt:wastrel|wastrel]], and that he served King [[Theobald II of Navarre]].

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==External links==
*[http://dante.dartmouth.edu/search_view.php?query=&cmd=Search&commentary%5B%5D=0&language=any&cantica=1&canto=22&line=48 Original text and commentaries across centuries] of Canto 22, line 48 and following, from Dartmouth Dante Project.

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