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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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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Canto XIX, is one crazy canto, so gorgeously constructed, as thick as fine tapestry, woven with Biblical allusions, historical references, s…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, 4 months ago
Out Of Rage And Into Virgil's Arms: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 118 - 133
Season 1 Episode 116
Our pilgrim, Dante, has finished his righteous rant. And after rage comes Virgil. More importantly, Virgil's embrace.
The pilgrim ends the canto in th…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Rant To End All Rants (Also, The World): Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 88 - 117
Season 1 Episode 115
Our pilgrim, Dante, has been talking to Pope Nicholas III, stuck upside-down in a hole in the third evil pocket of the eighth circle of Inferno, the …
4 years, 4 months ago
Just When You Think You Have Comedy Figured Out, It Breaks You: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 64 - 87
Season 1 Episode 114
In this passage, we get a clearer picture of the guy stuck upside-down in this hole in the third evil pouch, the third of the malebolge, in the eight…
4 years, 4 months ago
Popes In Hell: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 46 - 63
Season 1 Episode 113
Now we come to it: the daring part, the audacious part, and (dare we say it?) the funny part.
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we stand with our pilgrim, …
4 years, 4 months ago
Let's Go Down Into The Third Evil Pouch: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 31 - 45
Season 1 Episode 112
Dante the pilgrim and Virgil, his guide, have been walking along the ridge line of the eighth circle of Inferno. But Dante wants a closer look at the…
4 years, 4 months ago
Everybody Gets A Chance To Break The Church: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 13 - 30
Season 1 Episode 111
We've come to one of the most difficult cruxes in all of INFERNO: a passage that's loaded with Christian symbolism but that also includes a bit of bi…
4 years, 4 months ago