Mapping the Uncharted at the Beginning of the Age of Discovery: INFERNO, Canto XI, Lines 16 - 27
Settled in the shade of the tomb for a heretic pope, Dante hears Virgil's first take on the nature of lowest hell: malice, injury, the heart of evil itself, all bound up with force and fraud.Mappamundi? No! Mappa-inferno! Virgil's geography of hell will take up most of this canto and provide us with an unparalleled glimpse into the poet's thinking about the nature of evil.Or is it "just" a glimpse into Virgil's thinking?Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we rest with the pilgrim and listen to his guide explain the road ahead.Here are the segments for this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:[00:55] My…
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