Welcome To The Arid Plains Of The Blasphemers: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 1 - 18

Walking With Dante · Jun 9, 2021 · 23m

Here's a fascinating opening passage of a canto--breaking over from the previous one, including quirky rhetorical techniques, showing us classical references, and offering us a glimpse of a slower pacing for the narrative as a whole.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we slow-walk through Dante's masterpiece, COMEDY. We're in Canto XIV, the seventh circle of hell, the third ring of that circle. This is our first glimpse of the place where those violent against God, the blasphemers, find their eternal damnation.It's hot. It's dry. It's terrifying. And it's interesting. Dante the poet is trying out…