Behold The New Modern Man, Master Adam: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Lines 46 - 90
First, leprosy. Then rabies. And now dropsy. The medieval hospital of horrors just gets worse in the tenth of the evil pouches (the "malebolge") of fraud.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we meet one of the great sinners of hell--who is actually something of an undiscovered character. Poor Master Adam. He doesn't get the love that Francesca, Farinata, and Ulysses get. But the counterfeiter Master Adam may be just as important, given the sheer amount of space Dante gives him in INFERNO.Here are the segments of this episode of the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE:[02:21] My English translation of the…
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