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A Look Back At The Structure, Beauty, And Engineering Of Inferno, Canto XIX

Inferno, Canto XIX, is one crazy canto, so gorgeously constructed, as thick as fine tapestry, woven with Biblical allusions, historical references, structural idiosyncrasies, and even one glaring fault.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I look back over Inferno, Canto XIX, one of the finest Dante wrote for this part of Comedy. I'll offer some general assessments, goad you on to think more deeply about the canto, and even raise one ethical question about its overall thinking.These are the segments of this episode of the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE:[01:51] A reading of all of Inferno, Canto XIX. No…

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