Behold The Beast Of Fraud And Poetic Technique: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 1 - 27

Walking With Dante · Oct 3, 2021 · 29m

Canto XVII of INFERNO is often seen as a transitional canto, the way we get from the seventh circle of the violent to the eighth circle of the fraudulent. But I don't think so. I think this is the canto in which our poet strikes out on his own to craft the work he needs to meet the terms of his own salvation.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we enter a canto full of poetic fireworks with perhaps the strangest beast in all of hell: the monster of fraud, so carefully described, so difficult to parse, so made up out of whole cloth.Here are the segments of this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:[01:21] My…