Nervy Italians face the pits if they fail to ignite

For most of Europe this is Champions League match day six.

For Italy it is bolgia.

Bolgia in Naples, bolgia in Istanbul and possibly bolgia in Milan as well. The dictionary will tell you that bolgia means bedlam, but it has another meaning too. In Dante’s Inferno, at the very depths of hell is a place named Malebolge, a circle of 10 deep trenches, the pits of evil — and each of these bolgia is reserved for a different class of sinner.