This Way To The Violent, Down The Slope, Past The Minotaur: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 1 - 30
Virgil has finished his lesson on the geography of hell, he's answered the pilgrim's two questions, and we're back to the start of Canto XI, only at the start of Canto XII.Here, Dante, our pilgrim, confronts a dangerous rockslide that leads us straight past the Minotaur, the "infamy of Crete."Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I look over so many questions in the passage. What's the point of the Minotaur right here? What's the point of such a complicated simile about an avalanche near Trento? And can we start to come to terms with one of the cantos of INFERNO that has come in for so much negative…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.