Welcome To Virgil's Home Turf: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 45
Along with our pilgrim and Virgil, we take the first steps into the first circle of hell, the "real deal" of INFERNO.As you might imagine, we encounter some difficulties--mostly theological, although maybe also related to Virgil and perhaps even our poet in the background behind it all.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we come to the first circle of hell, Dante's "get-out-of-jail" card . . . and to a passage that may express the poet's ambivalence with his own theology and maybe even the art he's creating.To help underwrite this episode, please consider a one-time donation or a small monthly…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.