The Fine Art Of Seduction Can Land You In Hell: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 67 - 99
We're about to climb up on a bridge and look down at the other sinners in the first of the evil pouches. These guys are going the other way--and they're not engaged in any metamorphosis.Join me, Mark ...
3 Marras 202127min
Pimps, Fraud, And Metamorphosis: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 40 - 66
The first evil pouch. And a long podcast episode on WALKING WITH DANTE.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we walk along the rim of the first of the evil pouches in INFERNO's circle of fraud. Here, we'll see...
31 Loka 202135min
Our First Glimpse Of Old-School Demons: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 22 - 39
We're starting to walk along the first of the evil pouches with our pilgrim and his guide, Virgil. Down below, naked people are being whipped by horned demons. This is the hell we expected!Except mayb...
27 Loka 202122min
Welcome To The Eighth Circle Of Hell: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 1 - 21
We've passed the midway point in INFERNO. Halfway done! Yet we only have two circles left. We're about to enter the biggest circle of them all, the one that takes up thirty-eight percent of the INFERN...
24 Loka 202126min
A Look Back Over The Seventh Circle Of Hell In Dante's COMEDY
We've spent over forty (!) episodes of this podcast slow-walking through the seventh circle of INFERNO, among the sins of violence. We've been here a long time, to say the least. So I thought it would...
20 Loka 202122min
Flying By The Seat Of Your Pants (Also, Geryon): Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 100 - 134
We've come to the middle of INFERNO and the last bits of canto XVII. We've come to a tour de force of the imagination and a minor (foreshadowing?) comedic ending at the center of the hellish canticle....
17 Loka 202126min
Buck Up, It's Geryon (And Modern Narrative Techniques): Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 79 - 99
Our pilgrim walks back from the usurers, sitting out on the edge of the seventh circle of INFERNO, and finds that he must climb aboard the awful beast of fraud. Drama!But there's so much more. This pa...
13 Loka 202127min
The Poetics Of Color And Usury: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 46 - 78
We've come to what Dantista Chivacci Leonardi calls "the most colorful" bits of Dante's INFERNO. We've come to the usurers, sitting on the brink of the seventh circle of violence, looking out over the...
10 Loka 202132min
