1) Literary character 
Ciampolo (also Giampolo, `John Paul`) is the accepted name of a character in Dante`s Divine Comedy. Ciampolo appears in Canto XXII of the Inferno, where he is a grafter in the fifth ditch of the eighth circle. Ciampolo is hooked by the devils (the Malebranche, `Evil Claws`) that patrol that ditch, and pulled out of the boiling pitch where the...