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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, 4 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago
Pimps, Fraud, And Metamorphosis: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 40 - 66
Season 1 Episode 106
The first evil pouch. And a long podcast episode on WALKING WITH DANTE.
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we walk along the rim of the first of the evil po…
4 years, 5 months ago
Our First Glimpse Of Old-School Demons: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 22 - 39
Season 1 Episode 105
We're starting to walk along the first of the evil pouches with our pilgrim and his guide, Virgil. Down below, naked people are being whipped by horn…
4 years, 5 months ago
Welcome To The Eighth Circle Of Hell: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 1 - 21
Season 1 Episode 104
We've passed the midway point in INFERNO. Halfway done! Yet we only have two circles left. We're about to enter the biggest circle of them all, the o…
4 years, 5 months ago
A Look Back Over The Seventh Circle Of Hell In Dante's COMEDY
Season 1 Episode 103
We've spent over forty (!) episodes of this podcast slow-walking through the seventh circle of INFERNO, among the sins of violence. We've been here a…
4 years, 5 months ago
Flying By The Seat Of Your Pants (Also, Geryon): Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 100 - 134
Season 1 Episode 102
We've come to the middle of INFERNO and the last bits of canto XVII. We've come to a tour de force of the imagination and a minor (foreshadowing?) co…
4 years, 5 months ago
Buck Up, It's Geryon (And Modern Narrative Techniques): Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 79 - 99
Season 1 Episode 101
Our pilgrim walks back from the usurers, sitting out on the edge of the seventh circle of INFERNO, and finds that he must climb aboard the awful beas…
4 years, 5 months ago