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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…
5 years, 1 month 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 …
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month ago
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…
5 years, 1 month 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 …
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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, …
5 years, 2 months ago