The Stars, The Seasons, A Peasant, And Dante: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 1 - 21
Poor Virgil, put in his place over and over again, ever since the fourth of the malebolge, the evil pouch of the fortune tellers, when he had to rewrite his own epic, THE AENEID. Four cantos of humili...
16 Mar 202232min
Reading The Comedy Without Believing The Comedy
Hi, I'm Mark Scarbrough and this is the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. In most episodes of this podcast, we slow-walk passage by passage through Dante's masterwork, COMEDY. But this is an interpolated ep...
13 Mar 202218min
Virgil Humiliated, Virgil Adored: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 127 - 148
We come to the end of Canto XXIII and the sixth of the evil pouches, the malebolge, that make up the subsets of fraud in the eighth circle of INFERNO. Virgil has already seen something that has left h...
9 Mar 202233min
Virgil Gawks: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 109 - 126
We finally arrive at a moment that even our guide Virgil cannot believe.Why is he caught slack-jawed?The answer is more complicated than you might think.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we find that the s...
6 Mar 202233min
Welcome To The Synod Of The Hypocrites: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 82 - 108
Dante, our pilgrim, has slowed down to talk to two of the hypocrites, who are walking along in their gilded lead capes. But he gets more than he bargained for. He meets some guys who caused much of th...
2 Mar 202224min
The Lead Weight Of Hypocrisy: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 58 - 81
Dante the pilgrim and his guide, Virgil, have come down to the bottom of the sixth evil pouch to escape the demons from the fifth. Here, they find a group of guys in cowls or capes that look sort of l...
27 Feb 202228min
A Review And Reading Of The Entire Fifth Evil Pouch Of Fraud: Inferno, Canto XXI, Line 1 - Canto XXIII, Line 57
We've been through the circle of barratry, of political grift--and now it's time to look back over this vast landscape of text in Dante's INFERNO.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I read the entire passage...
23 Feb 202233min
What You Read Determines What You See: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 4 - 57
Dante the pilgrim and his guide Virgil appear to have escaped the nasty demons in the fifth pouch of fraud, down in the eighth circle of Inferno.But they'd better get a move on! The demons are coming ...
20 Feb 202237min
