Breaking Every Text, Even Your Own: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 100 - 130
We come to the end of the fourth evil pouch, the fourth of the malebolge, in the eighth circle of Inferno, the circle of fraud. And we go out with a bang!Dante disses Virgil (who has already dissed Dante). Virgil rewrites yet one more classical story. We get a load of contemporary, sad-sack fortunetellers. And then Dante quotes himself to let us know that every text can be broken, even his own.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, in the literary fun and games that mark the end of Canto XX of Inferno.Here are the segments of this episode of the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE:[01:21] My English translation of…
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