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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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago
Virgil Humiliated, Virgil Adored: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 127 - 148
Season 1 Episode 139
We come to the end of Canto XXIII and the sixth of the evil pouches, the malebolge, that make up the subsets of fraud in the eighth circle of INFERNO…
4 years, 4 months ago
Virgil Gawks: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 109 - 126
Season 1 Episode 138
We finally arrive at a moment that even our guide Virgil cannot believe.
Why is he caught slack-jawed?
The answer is more complicated than you might th…
4 years, 4 months ago
Welcome To The Synod Of The Hypocrites: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 82 - 108
Season 1 Episode 137
Dante, our pilgrim, has slowed down to talk to two of the hypocrites, who are walking along in their gilded lead capes. But he gets more than he barg…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Lead Weight Of Hypocrisy: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 58 - 81
Season 1 Episode 136
Dante the pilgrim and his guide, Virgil, have come down to the bottom of the sixth evil pouch to escape the demons from the fifth. Here, they find a …
4 years, 4 months ago