Placing Count Ugolino Inside The Scope Of Dante's Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 78
In the last episode of this podcast, we've looked at Count Ugolino's speech as a narrative arc, taking apart and looking at the ways both the poet Dante has changed the historical record and the detai...
2 Nov 202250min
Introducing The Last Great Sinner Of Hell, Count Ugolino: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 78
We come upon the last great sinner of hell: Count Ugolino, frozen in the ice of Cocytus, munching on the brains of Archbishop Ruggieri.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for the first of several episodes on Ug...
30 Okt 202238min
Cannibalism And Polyphony: INFERNO, Canto XXXII, Lines 124 - 139
Dante the pilgrim and silent Virgil lead us to the most disgusting scene in all of INFERNO as one sinner munches on the skull and brains of another.This scene is the setup at the end of INFERNO, Canto...
26 Okt 202225min
Snitching To The Devil: INFERNO, Canto XXXII, Lines 103 - 123
Dante the pilgrim has come across an infamous traitor on the ice sheet of Cocytus in the ninth ring of hell. Here in Antenora, the second sub-ring of the bottom of the everything, Dante finds the guy ...
23 Okt 202233min
A Treacherous Poet On A Treacherous Ice Sheet: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 70 - 102
We're nearing the center of the universe, a place where we can feel the weight of everything bearing down on us.Our pilgrim is showing the strain. Violent. Erratic. Our poet, too. Trying to convince u...
19 Okt 202237min
An Overview Of The Similes (So Far) In Dante's COMEDY
We've come a long way down into INFERNO and we'already passed dozens, even hundreds of similes. (It all depends on how you count them.)This podcast episode is an interpolated one in our slow-walk acro...
16 Okt 202237min
They Make Me So Mad That I Could Just Kill My Family: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 40 - 69
We've come to the first subset of the last circle of INFERNO, the pit of hell, an ice sheet that start with Caïna, which holds those who've offed family members, mostly for land or money. These guys a...
12 Okt 202245min
Disembodied Voices In The Pastoral Landscape Of An Ice Sheet: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 16 - 39
We start our trek with the pilgrim Dante and his guide Virgil across the final, ninth circle of hell, an unforgiving ice sheet, where we encounter disembodied voices, questions about perspective, past...
9 Okt 202231min
