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Virgil Returns For No Reason, Dante The Poet Slips, And More Fun On The Ice Sheet Of Cocytus: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 91 - 117
Season 1 Episode 208
We've slipped on down to the third ring of Cocytus--where we find a few textual problems, more New Testament references, the return of Virgil for no …
3 years, 4 months ago
Of Narcissists, Purgatory, Rage, Ugolino, And Our Poet Dante: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 90
Season 1 Episode 207
Our final episode on Count Ugolino! Yet there's so much left to say. We're going to have to pass on from this ghastly damned soul and let him return …
3 years, 5 months ago
Count Ugolino As A Perversion And Affirmation Of The New Testament: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 78
Season 1 Episode 206
On first glance, Count Ugolino's speech appears to be quite secular. He even appeals to the earth, not God, to save him and his sons.
In fact, Dante h…
3 years, 5 months ago
Placing Count Ugolino Inside The Scope Of Dante's Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 78
Season 1 Episode 205
In the last episode of this podcast, we've looked at Count Ugolino's speech as a narrative arc, taking apart and looking at the ways both the poet Da…
3 years, 5 months ago
Introducing The Last Great Sinner Of Hell, Count Ugolino: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 78
Season 1 Episode 204
We come upon the last great sinner of hell: Count Ugolino, frozen in the ice of Cocytus, munching on the brains of Archbishop Ruggieri.
Join me, Mark …
3 years, 5 months ago
Cannibalism And Polyphony: INFERNO, Canto XXXII, Lines 124 - 139
Season 1 Episode 203
Dante the pilgrim and silent Virgil lead us to the most disgusting scene in all of INFERNO as one sinner munches on the skull and brains of another.
T…
3 years, 5 months ago
Snitching To The Devil: INFERNO, Canto XXXII, Lines 103 - 123
Season 1 Episode 202
Dante the pilgrim has come across an infamous traitor on the ice sheet of Cocytus in the ninth ring of hell. Here in Antenora, the second sub-ring of…
3 years, 5 months ago
A Treacherous Poet On A Treacherous Ice Sheet: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 70 - 102
Season 1 Episode 201
We're nearing the center of the universe, a place where we can feel the weight of everything bearing down on us.
Our pilgrim is showing the strain. Vi…
3 years, 5 months ago
An Overview Of The Similes (So Far) In Dante's COMEDY
Season 1 Episode 200
We've come a long way down into INFERNO and we'already passed dozens, even hundreds of similes. (It all depends on how you count them.)
This podcast e…
3 years, 5 months ago
They Make Me So Mad That I Could Just Kill My Family: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 40 - 69
Season 1 Episode 199
We've come to the first subset of the last circle of INFERNO, the pit of hell, an ice sheet that start with Caïna, which holds those who've offed fam…
3 years, 5 months ago