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Cacus, A Centaur Like None Other, Not Even In Classical Literature: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 17 -33
Season 1 Episode 149
Vanni Fucci has run off, wrapped up in snakes. But he's now just prey for Cacus, a centaur who arrives toting lots of snakes and even a dragon. Can i…
3 years, 11 months ago
Revenge Is Ever So Sweet: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 1 - 16
Season 1 Episode 148
Vanni Fucci has given his big speech, complete with a clear statement of his crime/sin and an opaque statement of the future of Dante's friends and f…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Bad Boys Get The Best Prophecies: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 121 - 151
Season 1 Episode 147
We have watched a sinner burn up from a snakebite and reconstitute right in front of the pilgrim Dante's eyes. But who is this damned guy? The answer…
4 years ago
Snakebit: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 97 - 120
Season 1 Episode 146
Our pilgrim, Dante, and his guide, Virgil, have come down to a place where they can see into the darkness of the seventh of the malebolge, the evil p…
4 years ago
A Swarm Of Snakes And Literary Texts: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 79 - 96
Season 1 Episode 145
Dante the pilgrim has wanted a good, close look into the seventh of the evil pouches, the seventh of the malebolge that make up the great landscape o…
4 years ago
Get Me Closer To That Unintelligible Stuff: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 61 - 78
Season 1 Episode 144
Dante is still out of breath because of the arduous climb out of the sixth of the malebolge of fraud. But he doesn't want Virgil to know it!
Join me, …
4 years ago
Virgil's Reprimand, The Pilgrim's Hypocrisy, The Poet's Games: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 46 - 60
Season 1 Episode 143
Dante the pilgrim has gotten up to the top of the crag and out of the sixth of the malebolge, the evil pouches that make up the giant eighth circle o…
4 years ago
The Struggle Is Real: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 22 - 45
Season 1 Episode 142
Dante and Virgil have to get out of the sixth evil pouch, the pocket of the hypocrites. And the only way out is up!
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we se…
4 years ago
The Stars, The Seasons, A Peasant, And Dante: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 1 - 21
Season 1 Episode 141
Poor Virgil, put in his place over and over again, ever since the fourth of the malebolge, the evil pouch of the fortune tellers, when he had to rewr…
4 years ago
Reading The Comedy Without Believing The Comedy
Season 1 Episode 140
Hi, I'm Mark Scarbrough and this is the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. In most episodes of this podcast, we slow-walk passage by passage through Dante's…
4 years ago