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Noshing On The Worst Sinners In Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 46 - 69
Season 1 Episode 214
We've come to our last moments in hell. Here, our pilgrim Dante sees the three worst sinners in human history: Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius.
Wa…
3 years, 7 months ago
A Brief History Of Satan (Up Until Dante's Vision)
Season 1 Episode 213
Dante the pilgrim has seen the final vision of INFERNO: Satan, looked in the ice sheet of Cocytus.
Perhaps it's wise to step back and think about whe…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Three Faces Of Interpretation . . . Or Satan: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 28 - 45
Season 1 Episode 212
We're about to get a good look at Satan, closer and closer, until we can see the color of his faces. Yes, faces. Three of them. Some trinitarian perv…
3 years, 7 months ago
An Overview Of The Seven Direct Addresses To The Reader In INFERNO
Season 1 Episode 211
This episode is an interpolated one in the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. We've just gone beyond the last of the seven direct addresses to the reader in…
3 years, 8 months ago
Behold Satan: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 1 - 27
Season 1 Episode 210
We've come to the final revelation of INFERNO, to its climax: the vision of Satan himself, called "Dis" by Virgil (after his own king of the underwor…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Zombie Apocalypse: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 118 - 157
Season 1 Episode 209
We've come to the last sinner who speaks in INFERNO. And his story is as wild as it gets. He claims that once someone violates the guest/host relatio…
3 years, 8 months ago
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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago