Naming Names Among The Grifters: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 76 - 93
Our nameless barrator has been ripped open--but he's still able to do what grifters do best: sell out his fellow grifters.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we look at a passage from the fifth of the malebo...
9 Feb 202227min
The Demons Take Their Pound Of Flesh: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 40 - 75
Mange-Dog has pulled a political grifter up onto the shore of the boiling pitch and the demons are about to let him have it. But not before Virgil, prompted by our pilgrim Dante, asks him a few questi...
6 Feb 202234min
Strolling Down The Avenue With The Demons: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 13 - 39
Dante, our pilgrim, and Virgil, his guide, have fallen in with a pack of nasty demons who are on the prowl for any barrators who stick up from the boiling pitch in the fifth evil pouch in the circle o...
2 Feb 202223min
Mile-High Poetics In The Service Of Rank Vulgarity: Inferno, Canto XXI, Line 127 - Canto XXII, Line 12
Evil Tail has mustered his regiment of insane demons. They're ready to start out, leading our pilgrim, Dante, and his guide, Virgil, along the cliff to the next available bridge.Yet our pilgrim has so...
30 Jan 202221min
Bring On The Demons: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 103 - 126
Dante, our pilgrim, and his guide, Virgil, have been stopped in their tracks by a pack of demons above the fifth evil pouch in the eighth circle of hell. We're in the rings of fraud, the largest lands...
26 Jan 202234min
All About Dante And Demons
Hi there. I'm Mark Scarbrough and this episode is one of the interpolated ones for the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. I'd like to pause in Inferno, Canto XXI, before we move on to its end and into Canto ...
23 Jan 202218min
High Virgil, Low Demons, And The Poor Pilgrim Dante: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 64 - 102
We've seen seen one demon running along the bank. Now here comes a pack of them! They boil out at Virgil who is ready for them with lofty rhetoric and misplaced trust. And even a little contempt for t...
19 Jan 202225min
Working Together To Make A Mess: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 46 - 63
The demon has thrown this sinner into the pitch, headed off to collect more in Lucca, and caused the whole horde of demons under the bridge to start their low-comedy, high-violence act.Join me, Mark S...
16 Jan 202226min
