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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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago