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Belacqua

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Belacqua was a maker of musical instruments, known for his laziness. A Florentine, he seems to have been a friend of Dante. His voice appears in Purgatorio Canto IV.

Samuel Beckett makes allusions to Belacqua several times throughout the Molloy trilogy.