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
Jousting To Tell The Tale: INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 43 - 75
After Dante confesses his unworthiness in the opening of Canto II of INFERNO, Virgil clarifies the matter. "You're not modest. You're a coward."Then Virgil does what humans do. He tells a story. One t...
18 Okt 202030min
False Modesty (Or Maybe Not): INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 1 - 42
We thought we were underway, but important things must happen first. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we start the Canto II of INFERNO to discover that the our pilgrim, Dante, is almost undone by his doub...
14 Okt 202028min
An Interpolated Episode: A Look Back At INFERNO, Canto I, And Look Around The Entire Poem
Let's pause to look back over INFERNO, Canto I. I'll read it through for its scope and arc. Then we'll set about exploring this piece of architecture, not just the first canto, but the whole of Dante'...
11 Okt 202032min
