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The Sins Of Violence Explained (Sort Of): INFERNO, Canto XI, Lines 28 - 51
Season 1 Episode 57
Virgil begins to detail his mappa mundi--or perhaps his mappa inferno--with a longer look at the seventh circle of hell, the next we'll encounter.
He'…
5 years, 3 months ago
Mapping the Uncharted at the Beginning of the Age of Discovery: INFERNO, Canto XI, Lines 16 - 27
Season 1 Episode 56
Settled in the shade of the tomb for a heretic pope, Dante hears Virgil's first take on the nature of lowest hell: malice, injury, the heart of evil …
5 years, 3 months ago
The Dazzle of Beatrice, The Stench Of Hell: INFERNO, Canto X, Line 121b, through Canto XI, Lines 15
Season 1 Episode 55
Our pilgrim leaves Farinata's and Cavalcante's tomb hesitantly. Something about his encounter with the heretics is so profound, it stops the forward …
5 years, 3 months ago
Where Is My Son? A Thematic And Structural Overview Of INFERNO, Canto X
Season 1 Episode 54
Why is Farinata in the sixth circle of the heretics in hell? And why is he damned in the first place?
The answers may lie in the structure of Canto X …
5 years, 3 months ago
Repenting To A Heretic: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 94 - 121a
Season 1 Episode 53
We finish our time with Farinata with a discussion that gets stranger by the minute. There's definitely a camaraderie between our pilgrim and this Gh…
5 years, 3 months ago
How To Be Human And How To Quit Being Human: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 73 - 93
Season 1 Episode 52
After out time with Cavalcante, that passage about human loss and suffering, we now return to Farinata, our Greco-Roman statue--who becomes less so o…
5 years, 3 months ago
Poetic Rivalry And Poetic Guilt: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 52 - 72
Season 1 Episode 51
In this passage from INFERNO, our poet (and our pilgrim) comes face to face with the suffering he caused. It takes a brave writer to face his fears h…
5 years, 3 months 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 and pulling himself upright, Farinata confronts our pilgrim by interrupting Virgil.
This is no ordinary encounte…
5 years, 4 months ago
Cosmic Battles And Interpersonal Squabbles: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 1 - 21
Season 1 Episode 49
Well within the sixth circle of hell, we haven't yet seen any of the damned. Instead, Dante, our pilgrim, and Virgil, his guide, are picking their wa…
5 years, 4 months 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, 4 months ago