Repenting To A Heretic: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 94 - 121a
We finish our time with Farinata with a discussion that gets stranger by the minute. There's definitely a camaraderie between our pilgrim and this Ghibelline warlord.The grander question? Is there a c...
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How To Be Human And How To Quit Being Human: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 73 - 93
After out time with Cavalcante, that passage about human loss and suffering, we now return to Farinata, our Greco-Roman statue--who becomes less so over the course of the strange, twisty passage.Join ...
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Poetic Rivalry And Poetic Guilt: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 52 - 72
In this passage from INFERNO, our poet (and our pilgrim) comes face to face with the suffering he caused. It takes a brave writer to face his fears head on.A shade rises up next to Farinata. This one'...
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The Second Great Sinner Of Hell, Farinata degli Uberti: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 22 - 51
Rising out of the burning sarcophagus and pulling himself upright, Farinata confronts our pilgrim by interrupting Virgil.This is no ordinary encounter with the damned. This is an encounter with histor...
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Cosmic Battles And Interpersonal Squabbles: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 1 - 21
Well within the sixth circle of hell, we haven't yet seen any of the damned. Instead, Dante, our pilgrim, and Virgil, his guide, are picking their way along a secret path between the burning sarcophag...
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Straight On, Then Right For The Burning Tombs Of The Heretics: INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 107 - 133
Finally, we're done with the fifth circle of hell, with the wrathful (and the sullen) and all that happens before the gates of Dis.Curiously, we're also done with the seven deadly sins as a structurin...
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Saved At Last . . . By Mercury, Jesus, The Archangel Michael, Someone: INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 64 - 106
How long have we been standing with the pilgrim and his guide in front of the walls of Dis? For ten episodes of this podcast!Now comes salvation . . . in the form of a messenger . . . from heaven? And...
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How Much Classical Imagery Can One Poem Take? INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 34 - 63
This passage is surely the densest thicket of classical allegory we've yet encountered in INFERNO. The references are so heavy and quickly applied that the poet even steps out from behind the curtain ...
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