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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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 months ago
Of Prophets, Poets, And Pilgims: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 1 - 12
Season 1 Episode 110
It's almost mind-boggling to see the difference between INFERNO, Canto XVIII, and INFERNO, Canto XIX.
Canto XIX opens with a proem: a prefatory poem, …
4 years, 8 months ago
Flattery And Feces, Together At Last: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 115 - 134
Season 1 Episode 109
We've come to the back of INFERNO, Canto XVIII, to the two flatterers who live down in the pouch filled with the muck from human privies.
Just as a wa…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Moldiest, Muckiest, And Grossest Bits Of Inferno (So Far): Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 100 - 114
Season 1 Episode 108
Inferno is getting grosser. Coarser. And maybe more human?
We're getting ready to cross over the second of the evil pouches of fraud in the eighth cir…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Fine Art Of Seduction Can Land You In Hell: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 67 - 99
Season 1 Episode 107
We're about to climb up on a bridge and look down at the other sinners in the first of the evil pouches. These guys are going the other way--and they…
4 years, 8 months ago