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Hell's Biggest Crack Is In The Poetry, Not The Landscape: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 1 - 6
Season 1 Episode 37
With the wrathful, COMEDY seems to back up and start over. Although Boccaccio had a story to explain this break, its rationale may be more in terms o…
5 years, 5 months ago
On To The Wrathful, Sort Of: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 97 - 130
Season 1 Episode 36
Here's something new: a descent from one ring to another within a single canto.
Our pilgrim and Virgil scramble down to find themselves on the shore o…
5 years, 5 months ago
O, Fortuna: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 67 - 96
Season 1 Episode 35
Dante wants to know why some people have it good and some, bad. Virgil, seemingly impatient, sets into his sermon on the goddess Fortune who controls…
5 years, 5 months ago
Fate And The Cracks In Dante's Poetry: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 36 - 66
Season 1 Episode 34
We finally get a glimpse at the hoarders and the wasters, the avaricious and the prodigal. They're mostly clergy, from run-of-the-mill clerics all th…
5 years, 6 months ago
Jousting With Greedy Plutus: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 1 - 35
Season 1 Episode 33
We descend a level of hell and 'come to the "il gran nemico," the great enemy: Plutus.
But why is he so great if he makes babbles nonsense and is easi…
5 years, 6 months ago
Virgil Gets The Apocalypse Wrong: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 94 - 115
Season 1 Episode 32
Ciacco has fallen back into the muck, never to be seen again--at least not until the last judgment.
As the pilgrim and Virgil start to descend to the …
5 years, 6 months ago
The Bloodbath That Was, Is, And Will Be Florence: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 58 - 93
Season 1 Episode 31
In the last passage, Ciacco the glutton seemed to have come to a halt in his conversation. But our pilgrim has not had enough. He prompts this damned…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Curious Case Of Ciacco: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 34 - 57
Season 1 Episode 30
In the third circle of hell, our pilgrim finds an emblematic glutton, Ciacco. This strange soul offers us a few problems. He mixes gluttony with anot…
5 years, 6 months ago
Wide Awake With Cereberus: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 1 - 33
Season 1 Episode 29
Our pilgrim wakes up in the weather of the third circle of hell: hail, rain, and snow, making the ground a rancid swamp.
But wait, wakes up? How'd he …
5 years, 6 months ago
A Very Short Hiatus
Season 1
Thank you so much for all you've done to make this podcast a success so far. I hope you're enjoying in the walk. I'm so glad many of you have connect…
5 years, 6 months ago