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An Explanation For The Brief Halt In This Podcast
Hey there. Mark Scarbrough. As usual. Just a quick explanation of why the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE seems to have come to a halt. Thanks to all of y…
3 years, 10 months ago
Fireflies, Elijah, And Messy Metaphors: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 25 - 48
Season 1 Episode 158
Our first glimpse into the eighth of the evil pouches (the malebolge) that make up the giant circle of fraud in Dante's INFERNO.
Except nothing's as c…
3 years, 10 months ago
Poetic Theory In The Crack Between Two Evil Pouches: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 13 - 24
Season 1 Episode 157
Dante and his guide, Virgil, leave the seventh of the evil pouches (the malebolge) of fraud by means of a rocky scramble. Then the poet stops and dro…
3 years, 10 months ago
Take Heart, Fellow Walkers!
Season 1 Episode 156
Hi, I'm Mark Scarbrough and we've been walking with Dante for a long time. We're doing it slowly, a passage at a time, and we've come through some of…
3 years, 11 months ago
More Questions Than Answers: An Overview Of The Metamorphosizing Thieves And The Seventh Of Fraud's Malebolge
Season 1 Episode 155
We have spent a long time with the thieves in the seventh of the malebolge or the evil pouches of fraud's eighth circle of hell. It's time for a retr…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Shifty Thieves, The Certain Judgment, The Uncertain Poet: Inferno, Canto XXV, Line 142 - Canto XXVI, Line 12
Season 1 Episode 154
Dante the poet has finally wrapped up the pilgrim's time in the seventh of the evil pouches, the "malebolge" that make up the eighth circle of INFERN…
3 years, 11 months ago
Morphing Into Your Own Father: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 79 - 141 (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 153
We've already explored the source material behind the third metamorphosis in the pit of the thieves, the seventh of the malebolge in the great landsc…
3 years, 11 months ago
Identity Theft In The Middle Ages: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 79 - 141 (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 152
We've reached the third and final metamorphosis in the seventh of the evil pouches, the malebolge that make up the eighth circle of hell in INFERNO.
J…
3 years, 11 months ago
Turning The Beast With Two Backs Into Poetry: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 34 - 78 (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 151
In the last episode of WALKING WITH DANTE, I helped you understand the sources and textual problems in this second metamorphosis from the seventh of …
3 years, 11 months ago
The Beast With Two Backs--Or, Two Things And Nothing: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 34 - 78 (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 150
First, a guy burns up, turns to ashes, comes back to life, and prophesies the future. Then a centaur run by with snakes and dragons on his back. And …
3 years, 11 months ago