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Virgil Out Of His Depths--Or Maybe Out Of Dante's: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 49 - 84 (Part One)
Season 2 Episode 6
We have come to one of the strangest moments so far in COMEDY: the moment we recognize the lone old man is in fact the Roman pagan Stoic suicide Cato…
3 years ago
A Lone Old Man Who Disrupts COMEDY And Changes The Rules Of The Afterlife: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 28 - 48
Season 2 Episode 5
As Dante the pilgrim gazes at the gorgeous sky, he finds an old man standing next to him, a figure who will startle us (if not the pilgrim) and who w…
3 years ago
Laughter And Loss, The Essence Of Being Human: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 13 - 27
Season 2 Episode 4
Dante the poet leads us in a slow turn toward Dante the pilgrim, his "fictional" alter ego, who is looking up at the heavens--that is, at Venus, at f…
3 years ago
Of A Poet, His Hubris, And His Doubts: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 1 - 12
Season 2 Episode 3
These are the opening lines of PURGATORIO, in whcih we start, not with the Dante the pilgrim (as we did in INFERNO), but with Dante the poet, who put…
3 years ago
The Shores Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Cantos 1 - 2
Season 2 Episode 2
As I told you in the previous episode of this podcast, we're taking PURGATORIO in chunks, rather than small bits. Or more like, first chunks, then sm…
3 years ago
An Introduction To PURGATORIO
Season 2 Episode 1
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Welcome back! We've been on hiatus for a bit, a…
3 years ago
The Podcast “Walking With Dante” Is On A Short Hiatus
Season 1 Episode 232
Just a quick note to say that the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE is on a brief hiatus after our slow-walk through INFERNO. We'll be back at the walk in p…
3 years, 2 months ago
What We Missed And How You Can Further Your Own Slow-Walk Across INFERNO
Season 1 Episode 231
We have come to the end of our slow-walk across Dante's INFERNO, the first third (or so) of his masterpiece, COMEDY. But there are admittedly things …
3 years, 2 months ago
INFERNO: Final Thoughts Without Firm Conclusions
Season 1 Episode 230
We've come to the end of our slow-walk through INFERNO, the first third of Dante's masterpiece, COMEDY.
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for some final thoug…
3 years, 2 months ago
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 32 - 34
Season 1 Episode 229
We finish off INFERNO in my English translation, which you can find on my website: markscarbrough.com.
But I hope you don't go there. I hope you sit b…
3 years, 2 months ago