An Interpolated Episode: Limbo Unraveled
Limbo is the first circle of INFERNO . . . although that statement already presents a problem. How can Limbo be in hell? Isn't it a state somewhere between the redeemed and the damned?Join me, Mark Sc...
15 Nov 202021min
Welcome To Virgil's Home Turf: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 45
Along with our pilgrim and Virgil, we take the first steps into the first circle of hell, the "real deal" of INFERNO.As you might imagine, we encounter some difficulties--mostly theological, although ...
14 Nov 202034min
When Crossing Acheronte Into The First Ring Of Hell, Don't Faint: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 109 - 136
We finish canto III of INFERNO, standing on the shores of Acheronte, the river that forms the border of the first rings of inner hell.Charon is busy with this job, Virgil is suddenly gentler, more par...
8 Nov 202040min
Charon, The Pagan Ferryman Of The Christian Damned: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 70 - 108
We step out of the foyer and enter the second part of Canto III of INFERNO: the part about the storied Charon, the ferryman on Acheronte (or Acheron), as well as the souls waiting to be ferried into h...
4 Nov 202027min
Sometimes, You Get The Hell You Want: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 22 - 69
Our pilgrim, Dante, and his guide, Virgil, walk beyond hell's entrance to encounter, well, the sort of hell we thought we were going to get all along. Maybe not the wasps. But the rest of it? The chao...
1 Nov 202034min
Abandon Hope For It's The Gate Of Hell: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 1 - 21
We follow our pilgrim and his guide, Virgil, on their first steps into hell. Let's pause with these two at the gate of hell with its famous inscription ("Abandon hope!").You enter hell through an act ...
28 Okt 202021min
Bested By Beatrice, Bested By Virgil: INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 115 - 141
Beatrice has bested Virgil. Virgil has bested Dante, our pilgrim.Dante can do nothing else except set off across the universe.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we finish Canto II of INFERNO and get ready t...
25 Okt 202024min
To Be Saved, Tell A Story: INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 76 - 114
Where's Dante, our pilgrim? Not in this passage! He's fallen out of his own poem as Virgil and Beatrice engage in their rhetorical battle.And where's hell, the promised blaze with its tortured sinners...
21 Okt 202030min
