What You Read Determines What You See: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 4 - 57
Dante the pilgrim and his guide Virgil appear to have escaped the nasty demons in the fifth pouch of fraud, down in the eighth circle of Inferno.But they'd better get a move on! The demons are coming fast! How do they know? Because Dante's read a lot.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as the sequences about barratry all come down to meta-literary fantasia on texts, reading, writing, and knowing the world around you. You knew fraud was about the writing of COMEDY. Here's proof!Here are the segments of the episode of this podcast of WALKING WITH DANTE:[01:45] My English translation of INFERNO, Canto…
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