Michele Zanche
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Michele Zanche[lower-alpha 1] (1203 - Sassari, 1275) was an Italian politician, best known as a character in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, where he is mentioned in Canto XXII of Inferno, in the fifth bolgia of the eighth circle, among the barrators,[lower-alpha 2] together with Friar Gomita [it], vicar of Nino Visconti judge of Gallura. He married Simona Doria, from the famous and wealthy Genoese family.
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