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Too Many Footnotes And Not Enough Time To Reflect
Season 1 Episode 61
Even at this point, at the end of INFERNO's Canto XI, we've come a long with Dante-the-pilgrim. We've walked down six circles of hell. We've also enc…
4 years, 11 months ago
Usury + Violence = A Theory Of Art: Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 91 - 114
Season 1 Episode 60
Having asked one question and gotten smacked down, our pilgrim, Dante, dares to ask Virgil a second question. And this one's much harder. So much so …
4 years, 11 months ago
Virgil, Your Map Of Hell Needs A Little Work: Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 67 - 90
Season 1 Episode 59
Most of INFERNO Canto XI is taken up with Virgil's description of the road ahead, his "mappa-inferno," as it were. The old poet claims he's laid it a…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Greatest Sin Isn't Pride--It's Fraud: Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 52 - 66
Season 1 Episode 58
We've clearly left the seven deadly sins behind. We got through lust, gluttony, avarice, and wrath--and then dumped sloth, envy, and pride in favor o…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Sins Of Violence Explained (Sort Of): Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 28 - 51
Season 1 Episode 57
Virgil's mappamundi--or mappa inferno--is about to take a longer look at the seventh circle of hell, the next we'll encounter, as we sit with Dante, …
4 years, 11 months ago
Mapping The Uncharted At The Beginning Of The Age Of Discovery: Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 16 - 27
Season 1 Episode 56
Settled under the tomb of a heretic pope, Dante-the-pilgrim hears Virgil's first take on the nature of lowest hell: malice, injury, the heart of evil…
5 years ago
The Dazzle of Beatrice, The Stench Of Hell: Inferno, Canto X, Line 121b, through Canto XI, Lines 15
Season 1 Episode 55
Dante, our pilgrim, leaves Farinata's tomb almost unwillingly--at least, he has to force himself back to Virgil and continue his journey.
Something ab…
5 years ago
Where Is My Son? A Thematic And Structural Overview Of INFERNO, Canto X
Season 1 Episode 54
The answers to these important questions--why is Farinata in the sixth circle of hell and why is he damned at all?--may lie in the structure of Canto…
5 years ago
Repenting To A Heretic: Inferno, Canto X, Lines 94 - 121a
Season 1 Episode 53
We finish up our time with Farinata with a discussion that gets stranger by the minute. There's definitely a camaraderie between our pilgrim and this…
5 years ago
How To Be Human And How To Quit Being Human: Inferno, Canto X, Lines 73 - 93
Season 1 Episode 52
After the episode with Cavalcante among the heretics, a passage about human pain, loss, and suffering, we return to Farinata, our Greco-Roman statue-…
5 years ago