Editing Belphegor (section)

==Literature==
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The novella {{lang|it|[[Belfagor arcidiavolo]]}} by Italian diplomat [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] was first published in 1549, and regales how the demon comes to earth to find a mate.

Belphegor figures in ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' by [[John Milton]], 1667.
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| Next Chemos, th’ obscene dread of Moab’s sons,
From Aroar to Nebo, and the wild
Of southmost Abarim; in Hesebon
And Horonaim, Seon’s realm, beyond
The flow’ry dale of Sibma clad with vines,
And Eleale to th’ Asphaltic Pool.
Peor his other name, when he enticed
Israel in Sittim on their march from Nile
To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.
|}

According to the 1818 {{lang|fr|[[Dictionnaire Infernal]]}} by [[Jacques Collin de Plancy|Collin de Plancy]], Belphegor was [[Hell]]'s ambassador to [[France]]. The same claim was repeated by [[Victor Hugo]] in ''[[Toilers of the Sea]]'' (1866).

In the grimoire ''[[Key of Solomon]]'' (translated into English by [[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers|S.L. Mathers]] in 1889), Belphegor is listed near the end of the book as an Assyrian idol, now destroyed.

The novella by Machiavelli became the basis for the opera ''[[Belfagor]]'' by [[Ottorino Respighi]], which premiered at [[La Scala]] in [[Milan]] in 1923.