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The Poetics Of Color And Usury: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 46 - 78
Season 1 Episode 100
We've come to what Dantista Chivacci Leonardi calls "the most colorful" bits of Dante's INFERNO. We've come to the usurers, sitting on the brink of t…
4 years, 5 months ago
Poet And Pilgrim, Walking Alone Along The Cliff: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 28 - 45
Season 1 Episode 99
The beast of fraud has breached. And Virgil's got some negotiating to do. So he sends Dante the pilgrim alone along the edge of the cliff to see the …
4 years, 6 months ago
Behold The Beast Of Fraud And Poetic Technique: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 1 - 27
Season 1 Episode 98
Canto XVII of INFERNO is often seen as a transitional canto, the way we get from the seventh circle of the violent to the eighth circle of the fraudu…
4 years, 6 months ago
Laying My Cards On The Table: How I Read Dante's Comedy
Season 1 Episode 97
And by "read," as in the way it's used in literary studies, I mean "interpret."
We've come through some tough passages, so I thought it would be usefu…
4 years, 6 months ago
Swearing The Truth About The Beast Of Fraud: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 124 - 136
Season 1 Episode 96
Well, we've come to it. The moment of truth. Or fraud. And what if they're the same thing? Or similar things?
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for a corker o…
4 years, 6 months ago
Cords, Leopards, Medieval Poets, And Medieval Pilgrims, All Straightened Out By Classical Poetry: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 106 - 123
Season 1 Episode 95
Dante's COMEDY is about to shift gears. It's going to change its relationship to the poetry of the past. It's going to become more complicated in its…
4 years, 6 months ago
Tumbling Over A Simile About A Waterfall: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 91 - 105
Season 1 Episode 94
We're going to slow up even more and take one long look at a very complicated fifteen lines that include a twelve-line simile about the waterfall ahe…
4 years, 6 months ago
Civic Unity, Truth-Telling, And (Not) Making A Difference In Hell: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 79 - 90
Season 1 Episode 93
We've come to the last passage on our three Guelph heroes, circling each other on the burning sands of the seventh circle of hell, the violent--and s…
4 years, 6 months ago
Stopping The Mouth Of History With The Words Of A Prophet: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 64 - 78
Season 1 Episode 92
Dante the pilgrim is still looking down on the three Florentine, Guelph heroes, circling each other on the burning sands. They've got no forward mome…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Answer To Dashed Hopes Is Far Harder Than Anger: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 46 - 63
Season 1 Episode 91
Dante the pilgrim has met and spoken with the very heroes he's always admired. These are the Guelph leaders he himself admits he has remembered with …
4 years, 7 months ago