The Rant To End All Rants (Also, The World): Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 88 - 117
Our pilgrim, Dante, has been talking to Pope Nicholas III, stuck upside-down in a hole in the third evil pocket of the eighth circle of Inferno, the vast landscape of the fraudulent. He's learned that...
1 Des 202136min
Just When You Think You Have Comedy Figured Out, It Breaks You: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 64 - 87
In this passage, we get a clearer picture of the guy stuck upside-down in this hole in the third evil pouch, the third of the malebolge, in the eighth circle of Inferno, stuffed with the fraudsters. I...
28 Nov 202126min
Popes In Hell: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 46 - 63
Now we come to it: the daring part, the audacious part, and (dare we say it?) the funny part.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we stand with our pilgrim, Dante, and his guide, Virgil, on the floor of the t...
24 Nov 202129min
Let's Go Down Into The Third Evil Pouch: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 31 - 45
Dante the pilgrim and Virgil, his guide, have been walking along the ridge line of the eighth circle of Inferno. But Dante wants a closer look at the figures kicking their thighs and feet out of the h...
21 Nov 202124min
Everybody Gets A Chance To Break The Church: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 13 - 30
We've come to one of the most difficult cruxes in all of INFERNO: a passage that's loaded with Christian symbolism but that also includes a bit of biographical detail on Dante, the historical figure.T...
17 Nov 202130min
Of Prophets, Poets, And Pilgims: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 1 - 12
It's almost mind-boggling to see the difference between INFERNO, Canto XVIII, and INFERNO, Canto XIX.Canto XIX opens with a proem: a prefatory poem, to set up the action ahead. It's dense with Biblica...
14 Nov 202128min
Flattery And Feces, Together At Last: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 115 - 134
We've come to the back of INFERNO, Canto XVIII, to the two flatterers who live down in the pouch filled with the muck from human privies.Just as a warning: This passage is crude and crass. The languag...
10 Nov 202128min
The Moldiest, Muckiest, And Grossest Bits Of Inferno (So Far): Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 100 - 114
Inferno is getting grosser. Coarser. And maybe more human?We're getting ready to cross over the second of the evil pouches of fraud in the eighth circle of hell.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for a short e...
7 Nov 202119min
