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The Demonic Struggle For Guido's Embittered Soul: Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 112 - 136
Season 1 Episode 168
Down in the eighth of the evil pouches (the malebolge) that make up the giant circle of fraud in INFERNO, Guido da Montefeltro has told the (self-jus…
3 years, 9 months ago
Guido da Montefeltro's Take On His Own Life ("I Didn't Do Anything Wrong"): Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 58 - 111
Season 1 Episode 167
Let's pull apart the first chunk of the speech from Guida da Montefeltro in the eighth of the evil pouches (the malebolge) that make up the giant, ei…
3 years, 9 months ago
An Interview And Reading Of Inferno, Canto XXVIII, Lines 58 - 129 With J. Simon Harris And His New Translation Of Inferno
Season 1 Episode 166
Guido da Montefeltro speaks!
And he speaks with the voice of J. Simon Harris, whose new translation of INFERNO has just been published.
Join me, Mark S…
3 years, 9 months ago
Tiptoeing Around The Tyrants Of Romagna: Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 31 - 57
Season 1 Episode 165
Guido da Montefeltro is trapped in a tongue of fire in the eighth of the malebolge (evil pouches) that make up the eighth circle of hell, the landsca…
3 years, 9 months ago
Beware Of Classical Figures, Modern Politicians, And Maybe Poets: Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 1 - 30
Season 1 Episode 164
Ulysses leaves and a second flame shows up in the eighth of the malebolge, the evil pouches of fraud in Dante's INFERNO. Ulysses may be the great tra…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Case For Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 85 - 142
Season 1 Episode 163
In the last episode of WALKING WITH DANTE, I built a case against Ulysses without using anything but his own words against him. How do we know Ulysse…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Case Against Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 85 - 142
Season 1 Episode 162
In the last episode of this podcast, we took apart Ulysses' speech to discover its poetics and uncover some of its historical roots. Now it's time to…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Glorious Monologue Of The Damned Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 85 - 142
Season 1 Episode 161
Finally, Ulysses. We've waited long enough. Here he is in all his glory: a figure out of classical literature, whom Dante couldn't know, whom Dante w…
3 years, 10 months ago
It's All Greek To Dante: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 64 - 84
Season 1 Episode 160
Virgil has introduced Dante the pilgrim to the twinned souls in the tongue of fire: Ulysses and Diomedes. But there's a problem. Who will talk to the…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Fifth Great Sinner Of Hell, Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 49 - 63
Season 1 Episode 159
We're in the eighth circle of hell, INFERNO's vast landscape of fraud. And we're way down in the eight of the evil pouches (the malebolge) that make …
3 years, 10 months ago