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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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago
When History Speaks, It Doesn't Always Tell The Truth: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 28 - 45
Season 1 Episode 90
The three, naked, oiled, burned, hairless Florentines revolve in front of the pilgrim, Dante, and Virgil. One of them starts to speak.
And what a spee…
4 years, 10 months ago
Brunetto Is Gone But Not Forgotten On The Burning Sands: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 1 - 27
Season 1 Episode 89
Brunetto may have run off like the winner of a foot race but he's far from gone from the text. In fact, the next canto of INFERNO, XVI, is in many wa…
4 years, 10 months ago
An Interview with Kristen Hook, A Dantista Writing Her Dissertation On Inferno, Canto X
Season 1 Episode 88
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for this special episode of the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. This episode is my interview with Kristen Hook, a Dantista who …
4 years, 10 months ago
Are These Really The Homosexuals Punished In Inferno, Canto XV?
Season 1 Episode 87
From the get-go of Canto XV, I've told you my assumption: These are the homosexuals punished in Inferno.
But am I right? I'm certainly standing with t…
4 years, 10 months ago