Buck Up, It's Geryon (And Modern Narrative Techniques): Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 79 - 99
Our pilgrim walks back from the usurers, sitting out on the edge of the seventh circle of INFERNO, and finds that he must climb aboard the awful beast of fraud. Drama!But there's so much more. This pa...
13 Okt 202127min
The Poetics Of Color And Usury: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 46 - 78
We've come to what Dantista Chivacci Leonardi calls "the most colorful" bits of Dante's INFERNO. We've come to the usurers, sitting on the brink of the seventh circle of violence, looking out over the...
10 Okt 202132min
Poet And Pilgrim, Walking Alone Along The Cliff: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 28 - 45
The beast of fraud has breached. And Virgil's got some negotiating to do. So he sends Dante the pilgrim alone along the edge of the cliff to see the sinners sitting "over there."Wait! Classical poetry...
6 Okt 202117min
Behold The Beast Of Fraud And Poetic Technique: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 1 - 27
Canto XVII of INFERNO is often seen as a transitional canto, the way we get from the seventh circle of the violent to the eighth circle of the fraudulent. But I don't think so. I think this is the can...
3 Okt 202129min
Laying My Cards On The Table: How I Read Dante's Comedy
And by "read," as in the way it's used in literary studies, I mean "interpret."We've come through some tough passages, so I thought it would be useful to lay my cards on the table. Or at least most of...
29 Sep 202117min
Swearing The Truth About The Beast Of Fraud: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 124 - 136
Well, we've come to it. The moment of truth. Or fraud. And what if they're the same thing? Or similar things?Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for a corker of a passage, the last bits of Canto XVI of INFERNO,...
26 Sep 202130min
Cords, Leopards, Medieval Poets, And Medieval Pilgrims, All Straightened Out By Classical Poetry: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 106 - 123
Dante's COMEDY is about to shift gears. It's going to change its relationship to the poetry of the past. It's going to become more complicated in its symbolism (and yes, symbolism, not "just" allegory...
22 Sep 202118min
Tumbling Over A Simile About A Waterfall: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 91 - 105
We're going to slow up even more and take one long look at a very complicated fifteen lines that include a twelve-line simile about the waterfall ahead of us.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we walk passa...
19 Sep 202122min
