Turning The Beast With Two Backs Into Poetry: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 34 - 78 (Part Two)
In the last episode of WALKING WITH DANTE, I helped you understand the sources and textual problems in this second metamorphosis from the seventh of the evil pouches (the malebolge) in INFERNO's great...
20 Apr 202223min
The Beast With Two Backs--Or, Two Things And Nothing: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 34 - 78 (Part One)
First, a guy burns up, turns to ashes, comes back to life, and prophesies the future. Then a centaur run by with snakes and dragons on his back. And if that wasn't enough, now one of the most daring m...
17 Apr 202237min
Cacus, A Centaur Like None Other, Not Even In Classical Literature: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 17 -33
Vanni Fucci has run off, wrapped up in snakes. But he's now just prey for Cacus, a centaur who arrives toting lots of snakes and even a dragon. Can it get any more dramatic?Join me, Mark Scarbrough, a...
13 Apr 202224min
Revenge Is Ever So Sweet: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 1 - 16
Vanni Fucci has given his big speech, complete with a clear statement of his crime/sin and an opaque statement of the future of Dante's friends and family (and even the poet himself) in Florence.But w...
10 Apr 202224min
The Bad Boys Get The Best Prophecies: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 121 - 151
We have watched a sinner burn up from a snakebite and reconstitute right in front of the pilgrim Dante's eyes. But who is this damned guy? The answer to that question is as complicated as it gets.Join...
6 Apr 202237min
Snakebit: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 97 - 120
Our pilgrim, Dante, and his guide, Virgil, have come down to a place where they can see into the darkness of the seventh of the malebolge, the evil pouches that make up the eighth circle of fraud in h...
3 Apr 202233min
A Swarm Of Snakes And Literary Texts: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 79 - 96
Dante the pilgrim has wanted a good, close look into the seventh of the evil pouches, the seventh of the malebolge that make up the great landscape of fraud in the eighth circle of hell. And boy, does...
30 Mars 202222min
Get Me Closer To That Unintelligible Stuff: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 61 - 78
Dante is still out of breath because of the arduous climb out of the sixth of the malebolge of fraud. But he doesn't want Virgil to know it!Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as the pilgrim Dante hears somethi...
27 Mars 202227min
