Dante Calmly Tells The Tale And Virgil Makes A Wild Claim: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 76 - 93

Walking With Dante · Jun 20, 2021 · 16m

We've left Capaneus spread eagle on the burning sands and have begun to pass into this hellish desert-on-fire--that is, the third ring of the seventh circle of hell, of INFERNO.This podcast episode is about a short transitional passage before we get to some wilder stuff. But it gives us a chance to slow down and look at Dante-the-poet's poetic and narrative techniques.In essence, our poet is always building naturalistic details on and around his own emotional landscape. Those literary moves, in and of themselves, mark him as one of the fathers of the modern age.But he's still a poet of his…