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
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 Nov 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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Okt 202126min
