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An Interview with the poet and novelist J. Simon Harris, a translator of Dante's INFERNO
Season 1 Episode 81
In this interpolated episode of the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE, I interview the poet and translator J. Simon Harris about his work on INFERNO, his th…
4 years, 9 months ago
Exploring A Coda To A Canto And Cleaning Up The Canto As A Whole: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 121 - 142
Season 1 Episode 80
We've come to the end of this strange and wonderful canto. We've passed Capaneus. We've heard about the Old Man of Crete. We've seen the weird snowfa…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Old Man Of Crete PART TWO--Sewing The Canto Back Together: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 94 - 120
Season 1 Episode 79
Canto XIV of Dante's INFERNO is often seen as a misstep. Or at least an uneasy two-parter. First, there's Capaneus on the burning sands. Then there's…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Old Man Of Crete PART ONE--A Statue Rises From Four Other Texts: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 94 - 120
Season 1 Episode 78
We come to one of the strangest moments in INFERNO. While Virgil may have claimed that stream burbling out of the wood of the suicides was the most a…
4 years, 9 months ago
Dante Calmly Tells The Tale And Virgil Makes A Wild Claim: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 76 - 93
Season 1 Episode 77
We've left Capaneus spread eagle on the burning sands and have begun to pass into this hellish desert-on-fire--that is, the third ring of the seventh…
4 years, 9 months ago
Blaspheming Against Jove Smack In The Middle Of A Christian Poem: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 43 - 78
Season 1 Episode 76
Finally, a blasphemer. A monk who wrote a heretical treatise? A priest who tainted orthodoxy? A run-of-the-mill atheist?
Nope. A classical figure out …
4 years, 9 months ago
It's Snowing Fire And You're Naked: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 19 - 42
Season 1 Episode 75
We now get a fuller glimpse of the third ring of the seventh circle of hell, of inferno, in this passage that lays out the ranks of the damned before…
4 years, 9 months ago
Welcome To The Arid Plains Of The Blasphemers: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 1 - 18
Season 1 Episode 74
Here's a fascinating opening passage of a canto--breaking over from the previous one, including quirky rhetorical techniques, showing us classical re…
4 years, 10 months ago
Further Questions About Inferno, Canto XIII
Season 1 Episode 73
On this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE, I'm headed toward the mail bag--or maybe the email bag--to look at three questions from listeners. These quest…
4 years, 10 months ago
One Last Suicide, One Last Irony, One Last Intertextuality: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 127 - 151
Season 1 Episode 72
A bush has been torn apart by a crazed squanderers and black dogs. But it's got something to say, too, just like Pier delle Vigne.
Join me, Mark Scarb…
4 years, 10 months ago