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Poetic Rivalry And Poetic Guilt: Inferno, Canto X, Lines 52 - 72
Season 1 Episode 51
Factionalism run amuck! In this passage from INFERNO, our poet (and our pilgrim, Dante) comes face to face with the suffering he himself has caused. …
5 years ago
The Second Great Sinner Of Hell, Farinata degli Uberti: Inferno, Canto X, Lines 22 - 51
Season 1 Episode 50
Rising out of the burning sarcophagus, pulling himself upright, Farinata confronts Dante-the-pilgrim from the tombs of the heretics. But this is no o…
5 years ago
Cosmic Battles And Interpersonal Squabbles: Inferno, Canto X, Lines 1 - 21
Season 1 Episode 49
In the sixth circle of hell, we haven't yet seen any of the damned. Instead, Dante, our pilgrim, and Virgil are picking their way along a "secret pat…
5 years ago
Straight On, Then Right For The Burning Tombs Of The Heretics: INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 107 - 133
Season 1 Episode 48
Finally, we're done with the fifth circle of hell, with the wrathful (and the sullen) and all that happens before the gates of Dis.
Curiously, we're a…
5 years ago
Saved At Last . . . By Mercury, Jesus, The Archangel Michael, Someone: INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 64 - 106
Season 1 Episode 47
How long have we been standing with the pilgrim and his guide in front of the walls of Dis? For ten episodes of this podcast!
Now comes salvation . . …
5 years, 1 month ago
How Much Classical Imagery Can One Poem Take? INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 34 - 63
Season 1 Episode 46
This passage is surely the densest thicket of classical allegory we've yet encountered in INFERNO. The references are so heavy and quickly applied th…
5 years, 1 month ago
An Interpolated Episode: Did Dante Intend All These Interpretive Games In COMEDY?
Season 1 Episode 45
We danced around with the witch Erichtho quite a bit in the last episode with seven interpretive stances toward and over her. (That is, seven possibl…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Witch Erichtho And The Complications In Virgil's Backstory: INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 1 - 33
Season 1 Episode 44
At the end of INFERNO, Canto VIII, we left our pilgrim and his guide standing outside the walls of Dis, the city of hell. Virgil appeared to be a bit…
5 years, 1 month ago
Being Human, Even In Hell: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 97 - 130
Season 1 Episode 43
Virgil goes off to confer with the demons who slam shut the gates of Dis, shutting our pilgrim out in the fifth circle of INFERNO with no way forward…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Walls Of Dis, Virgil's Limits, and The Pilgrim's Folly: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 64 - 96
Season 1 Episode 42
Our pilgrim, Dante and his guide, Virgil, have made it across Styx, leaving behind Filippo Argenti and the wrathful/sullen. Our main characters have …
5 years, 1 month ago