The Walls Of Dis, Virgil's Limits, and Our Poet's Folly: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 64 - 96
Our pilgrim, Dante and his guide, Virgil, have made it across Styx, leaving behind Filippo Argenti and the wrathful/sullen. Our main characters have now come to the iron walls of Dis, the city of hell...
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An Angry Pilgrim Among The Angry Sinners: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 31 - 63
We've been through some dramatic passages: dark woods, wild beasts, Francesca, and Cerberus. But nothing rivals the crossing of (river? swamp?) Styx in the fifth circle of INFERNO.Join me, Mark Scarbr...
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Consider The Plot: An Overview Of INFERNO's Fifth Circle Of Wrath
In almost every episode of WALKING WITH DANTE, we take a passage from (so far) INFERNO and analyze it, talk through it, and look at some of the interpretive knots. But in this episode, I'd like for yo...
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Dante, The Poet Between The Classical And Modern Worlds: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 7 - 30
The fifth circle of INFERNO: wrath (and its counterpart to come).We may or may not be over a break in the poem. Boccaccio thought so. Many modern scholars do not. I'll give you some reasons why this p...
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An Interpolated Episode: Nothing In Dante's Hand, Or A Brief History Of COMEDY's Manuscripts
In this interpolated episode, I want to give you a brief history of the manuscript of COMEDY. None exists in Dante's own hand. So how do we trust what we have?I'll talk you through some basic facts, a...
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Hell's Biggest Crack Is In The Poetry, Not The Landscape: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 1 - 6
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 of the the poet's coming to terms with the expanding...
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On To The Wrathful, Sort Of: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 97 - 130
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 of Styx. Stuck in the muck are the wrathful . . . an...
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O, Fortuna: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 67 - 96
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 this world. It's boiler-plate Boethius . . . but m...
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