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An Interpolated Episode: Limbo Unraveled
Season 1 Episode 18
Limbo is the first circle of INFERNO . . . although that statement already presents a problem. How can Limbo be in hell? Isn't it a state somewhere b…
5 years, 8 months ago
Welcome To Virgil's Home Turf: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 45
Season 1 Episode 17
Along with our pilgrim and Virgil, we take the first steps into the first circle of hell, the "real deal" of INFERNO.
As you might imagine, we encount…
5 years, 8 months ago
Inferno, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 45
Season 1 Episode 17
Dante the pilgrim and Virgil finally descend to the first circle of hell: Limbo, Virgil's home. The old poet turns pale--but why? (Well, also, how?) …
5 years, 8 months ago
When Crossing Acheronte Into The First Ring Of Hell, Don't Faint: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 109 - 136
Season 1 Episode 16
We finish canto III of INFERNO, standing on the shores of Acheronte, the river that forms the border of the first rings of inner hell.
Charon is busy …
5 years, 8 months ago
Charon, The Pagan Ferryman Of The Christian Damned: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 70 - 108
Season 1 Episode 15
We step out of the foyer and enter the second part of Canto III of INFERNO: the part about the storied Charon, the ferryman on Acheronte (or Acheron)…
5 years, 8 months ago
Sometimes, You Get The Hell You Want: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 22 - 69
Season 1 Episode 14
Our pilgrim, Dante, and his guide, Virgil, walk beyond hell's entrance to encounter, well, the sort of hell we thought we were going to get all along…
5 years, 8 months ago
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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 months ago