The Answer To Dashed Hopes Is Far Harder Than Anger: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 46 - 63
Dante the pilgrim has met and spoken with the very heroes he's always admired. These are the Guelph leaders he himself admits he has remembered with so much honor.But their rhetoric is empty. Self-justifying. Flattering. And finally, ineffective.So Dante the pilgrim dares it all and translates his anger into something far more human: sadness and connection.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for this important episode of WALKING WITH DANTE. Here, we begin to see a fundamental change in our pilgrim, Dante. He's not just a tourist in hell. He's a human with dashed hopes. And he may be starting to see a…
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