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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.
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3 years, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
Disembodied Voices In The Pastoral Landscape Of An Ice Sheet: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 16 - 39
Season 1 Episode 198
We start our trek with the pilgrim Dante and his guide Virgil across the final, ninth circle of hell, an unforgiving ice sheet, where we encounter di…
3 years, 9 months ago
When Hell Gets So Bad You Despair Of Your Own Craft: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 1 - 15
Season 1 Episode 197
We've come to the ninth circle of hell. But not quite yet. Dante opens Inferno, Canto XXXII with a metapoetic moment, a passage in which he talks abo…
3 years, 9 months ago
Welcome To The Foundations Of The Universe: Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 130 - 145
Season 1 Episode 196
We've walked with Dante the pilgrim and his guide, Virgil, to the very foundations of the universe, the ninth circle of hell, the bottom of all that …
3 years, 9 months ago
Flattering Your Way To The Center Of The Earth: INFERNO, Canto XXXI, Lines 112 - 129
Season 1 Episode 195
Dante the pilgrim and Virgil walk on to find Antaeus, the unbound giant who can set them down on the floor of hell--otherwise known as the center of …
3 years, 9 months ago