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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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago
The Walls Of Dis, Virgil's Limits, and Our Poet'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, 5 months ago
An Angry Pilgrim Among The Angry Sinners: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 31 - 63
Season 1 Episode 41
We've been through some dramatic passages: dark woods, wild beasts, Francesca, and Cerberus. But nothing rivals the crossing of (river? swamp?) Styx …
5 years, 5 months ago
Consider The Plot: An Overview Of INFERNO's Fifth Circle Of Wrath
Season 1 Episode 40
In almost every episode of WALKING WITH DANTE, we take a passage from (so far) INFERNO and analyze it, talk through it, and look at some of the inter…
5 years, 5 months ago
Dante, The Poet Between The Classical And Modern Worlds: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 7 - 30
Season 1 Episode 39
The fifth circle of INFERNO: wrath (and its counterpart to come).
We may or may not be over a break in the poem. Boccaccio thought so. Many modern sch…
5 years, 5 months ago
An Interpolated Episode: Nothing In Dante's Hand, Or A Brief History Of COMEDY's Manuscripts
Season 1 Episode 38
In this interpolated episode, I want to give you a brief history of the manuscript of COMEDY. None exists in Dante's own hand. So how do we trust wha…
5 years, 5 months ago