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Abandon Hope For It's The Gate Of Hell: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 1 - 21
Season 1 Episode 13
We follow our pilgrim and his guide, Virgil, on their first steps into hell. Let's pause with these two at the gate of hell with its famous inscripti…
5 years, 5 months ago
Bested By Beatrice, Bested By Virgil: INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 115 - 141
Season 1 Episode 12
Beatrice has bested Virgil. Virgil has bested Dante, our pilgrim.
Dante can do nothing else except set off across the universe.
Join me, Mark Scarbroug…
5 years, 5 months ago
To Be Saved, Tell A Story: INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 76 - 114
Season 1 Episode 11
Where's Dante, our pilgrim? Not in this passage! He's fallen out of his own poem as Virgil and Beatrice engage in their rhetorical battle.
And where's…
5 years, 5 months ago
Jousting To Tell The Tale: INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 43 - 75
Season 1 Episode 10
After Dante confesses his unworthiness in the opening of Canto II of INFERNO, Virgil clarifies the matter. "You're not modest. You're a coward."
Then …
5 years, 5 months ago
False Modesty (Or Maybe Not): INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 1 - 42
Season 1 Episode 9
We thought we were underway, but important things must happen first.
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we start the Canto II of INFERNO to discover that t…
5 years, 5 months ago
An Interpolated Episode: A Look Back At INFERNO, Canto I, And Look Around The Entire Poem
Season 1 Episode 8
Let's pause to look back over INFERNO, Canto I. I'll read it through for its scope and arc. Then we'll set about exploring this piece of architecture…
5 years, 5 months ago
Virgil The Poet Becomes Virgil The Prophet: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 97 - 136
Season 1 Episode 7
In a previous episode, I talked about how Dante defines Virgil as a poet, not a philosopher, and why that was important in Dante's medieval context.
B…
5 years, 6 months ago
Virgil To The Rescue: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 67 - 96
Season 1 Episode 6
We meet the pilgrim Dante's first and great guide, the Roman poet Virgil. He is the pilgrim's master, his "author." Except he's also Virgil, a guy wh…
5 years, 6 months ago
Wild Beasts On The Slope And The Slide Into Despair: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 28 - 66
Season 1 Episode 5
Dante begins his journey across the known universe--except not. The journey stops almost the moment it begins in COMEDY.
What happens when you set off…
5 years, 6 months ago
Climbing Away From The Turbulence In The Lake Of The Heart: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 10 - 27
Season 1 Episode 4
Our pilgrim, Dante, comes awake in a dark wood. Now what? He has to walk out. But to where? And how?
This fourth episode of WALKING WITH DANTE is actu…
5 years, 6 months ago