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Strolling Down The Avenue With The Demons: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 13 - 39
Season 1 Episode 129
Dante, our pilgrim, and Virgil, his guide, have fallen in with a pack of nasty demons who are on the prowl for any barrators who stick up from the bo…
4 years, 2 months ago
Mile-High Poetics In The Service Of Rank Vulgarity: Inferno, Canto XXI, Line 127 - Canto XXII, Line 12
Season 1 Episode 128
Evil Tail has mustered his regiment of insane demons. They're ready to start out, leading our pilgrim, Dante, and his guide, Virgil, along the cliff …
4 years, 2 months ago
Bring On The Demons: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 103 - 126
Season 1 Episode 127
Dante, our pilgrim, and his guide, Virgil, have been stopped in their tracks by a pack of demons above the fifth evil pouch in the eighth circle of h…
4 years, 2 months ago
All About Dante And Demons
Season 1 Episode 126
Hi there. I'm Mark Scarbrough and this episode is one of the interpolated ones for the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. I'd like to pause in Inferno, Cant…
4 years, 2 months ago
High Virgil, Low Demons, And The Poor Pilgrim Dante: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 64 - 102
Season 1 Episode 125
We've seen seen one demon running along the bank. Now here comes a pack of them! They boil out at Virgil who is ready for them with lofty rhetoric an…
4 years, 2 months ago
Working Together To Make A Mess: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 46 - 63
Season 1 Episode 124
The demon has thrown this sinner into the pitch, headed off to collect more in Lucca, and caused the whole horde of demons under the bridge to start …
4 years, 2 months ago
Virgil To The Rescue, A Demon On The Run: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 22 - 45
Season 1 Episode 123
Dante the poet has gotten caught up in his own simile, which is long, complicated, and unwieldy, enough so that it brings the plot to a standstill.
Bu…
4 years, 2 months ago
Metaphors, Tautologies, And Pitch: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 1 - 21
Season 1 Episode 122
WALKING WITH DANTE has been on a holiday hiatus. Now we're back at it, descending to Canto XXI of INFERNO, to the next malebolge, the fifth evil pouc…
4 years, 3 months ago
WALKING WITH DANTE Is Going On A (Very) Brief Hiatus
Happy new year! I wish you the best for the year ahead. WALKING WITH DANTE is going on a (very) brief hiatus, just for the end of the year. I'll be b…
4 years, 3 months ago
Breaking Every Text, Even Your Own: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 100 - 130
Season 1 Episode 121
We come to the end of the fourth evil pouch, the fourth of the malebolge, in the eighth circle of Inferno, the circle of fraud. And we go out with a …
4 years, 3 months ago