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The Limits Of Credulity In A Poem About The Afterlife: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 109 - 126
Season 1 Episode 71
Pier may have stopped speaking--Virgil and Dante, our pilgrim, aren't sure--but he doesn't carry on because through the underbrush crash two naked so…
4 years, 10 months ago
Sorrows And Windows For Sorrow: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 79 - 108
Season 1 Episode 70
Pier seemed to have come to a conclusion in his last speech with Virgil and our pilgrim, Dante. But he's clearly not done. Prompted by Dante, Virgil …
4 years, 10 months ago
The Third Great Sinner of Hell, Pier delle Vigne: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 46 - 78
Season 1 Episode 69
Dante, our pilgrim, has done as Virgil instructed: he's torn a branch off a bramble, only to have it spit blood and air--and words!
The bush is the so…
4 years, 10 months ago
Maybe You Can't Trust Those Old Roman Poets: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 1 - 45
Season 1 Episode 68
Nessus has dropped our pilgrim, Dante, off on the other side of the river where he and Virgil step into a gloomy wood with thorns rather than fruit, …
4 years, 10 months ago
Getting Ready For Canto XIII Of Dante's Inferno
Season 1 Episode 67
Without a doubt, Canto XIII of INFERNO is one of the most astounding in the enter canticle of pain. It ranks up there with Canto V and the lustful, w…
4 years, 10 months ago
At Long Last, The Violent Appear: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 103 - 139
Season 1 Episode 66
INFERNO, Canto XII, comes to its conclusion with a "zoo" of those who have been violent against others, including Alexander the Great (perhaps), Atti…
4 years, 10 months ago
Astride a Centaur: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 76 - 102
Season 1 Episode 65
In INFERNO, the question of our pilgrim's corporeality continues to dog us (and perhaps the poet). Is the pilgrim in his body? Is this "merely" a dre…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Centaurs--A Rider Without A Horse Or A Horse Without A Rider: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 49 - 75
Season 1 Episode 64
We've come to the river of blood in the seventh circle of INFERNO, the first ring of the violent--and we don't meet any sinners. Instead, we meet the…
4 years, 11 months ago
More On Virgil's Life Outside Of Comedy: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 31 - 48
Season 1 Episode 63
In this passage from INFERNO, Virgil offers us (and the pilgrim, Dante) more of a glimpse into his last trek to the bottom of hell. Here, he tells us…
4 years, 11 months ago
This Way To The Violent, Down The Slope, Past The Minotaur: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 1 - 30
Season 1 Episode 62
Virgil has finished his lesson on the geography of hell, he's answered the pilgrim's two questions, and we're back to the start of Canto XI, only at …
4 years, 11 months ago