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The Case For Francesca: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 88 - 142
Season 1 Episode 28
Francesca has long been a subject of fierce debate. By the mid-nineteenth century, she had been turned into an almost Byronic hero.
Maybe the truth of…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Case Against Francesca: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 88 - 142
Season 1 Episode 27
Dante, our pilgrim, calls the two who are light on the winds of lust to float down to him. When they arrive, he gets more than he bargained for. Fran…
5 years, 7 months ago
Damning Lust, Then Confusing It With Love: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 52 - 87
Season 1 Episode 26
The pilgrim, Dante, has just asked his guide who is tossed in lust's whirlwind.
Virgil answers with a list of the "greats" out on the wind: figures fr…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Lush Poetry Of The Lustful: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 25 - 51
Season 1 Episode 25
Our pilgrim, Dante, turns from Minos to discover the hellish hurricane that's the punishment of lustful.
It's hard to miss the lush language in this p…
5 years, 7 months ago
An Interpolated Episode: An Introduction to the Seven Deadly Sins
Season 1 Episode 24
Seven deadly sins: They almost seem like a cliché these days. But here they are: lust, gluttony, sloth, avarice, anger, pride, and envy.
It wasn't alw…
5 years, 7 months ago
Minos, The Connoisseur Of Sin: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 1 - 24
Season 1 Episode 23
We've walked to the second circle of hell, where the winds of lust howl. But not yet. First, we must meet a connoisseur of sin: Minos. He determines …
5 years, 7 months ago
An Interpolated Episode: A Look Back At The First Four Cantos of INFERNO
Season 1 Episode 22
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I look back over the first four cantos of INFERNO with an overview of where we've been and a discussion of the structure…
5 years, 7 months ago
Cataloguing The Greats You Know And The Ones You Wish You Knew: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 115 - 151
Season 1 Episode 21
Our pilgrim, Dante, gets to a vantage point where he can look across the "enameled" green to see the crowd gathered in and around Limbo's castle. He …
5 years, 7 months ago
The Great Poets Of Limbo: INFERNO Canto IV, Lines 85 - 114
Season 1 Episode 20
We follow our pilgrim, Dante, into Limbo. He sees four great shades coming toward him: Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. They welcome Virgil back and d…
5 years, 7 months ago
Virgil's (Mis)Understanding Of The Harrowing Of Hell: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 46 - 84
Season 1 Episode 19
Our pilgrim and Virgil begin to walk across Limbo, surely the largest surface in hell since its the uppermost ring. In fact, it's at first like a pla…
5 years, 8 months ago