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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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 months ago
Virgil And His Fraudulent Poem The Aeneid: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 52 - 99
Season 1 Episode 120
Virgil--and/or Dante, our poet--has already rewritten Ovid, Statius, and Lucan's poems. Now in a bit of insane daring, Virgil takes on this own poem,…
4 years, 7 months ago
For A Guy So Hard On Dante, Virgil Sure Doesn't Know His Classical Sources: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 25 - 51
Season 1 Episode 119
Our pilgrim Dante is crying at the distorted forms coming along in the fourth evil pouch (one of the malebolge) of the eighth circle of INFERNO. Or m…
4 years, 7 months ago
Poets, The Biggest Fraudsters Of All: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 1 - 24
Season 1 Episode 118
Canto XX of INFERNO is one that many skip. it's just too hard or too discursive or too long-winded. But others spend careers on. After Canto I, Canto…
4 years, 7 months ago
A Look Back At The Structure, Beauty, And Engineering Of Inferno, Canto XIX
Season 1 Episode 117
Inferno, Canto XIX, is one crazy canto, so gorgeously constructed, as thick as fine tapestry, woven with Biblical allusions, historical references, s…
4 years, 7 months ago