An Overview Of The Seven Direct Addresses To The Reader In INFERNO

This episode is an interpolated one in the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. We've just gone beyond the last of the seven direct addresses to the reader in INFERNO. Let's look back over all seven of them to discover what sort of reader Dante imagines for his poem and what Dante wants out of that reader.

Here are the segments of this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:

[01:15] The direct addresses to the reader tell us what sort of reader the poet wants and even imagines for his work.

[02:09] The first direct address: INFERNO, Canto VIII, lines 94 - 96.

[06:00] The second direct address: INFERNO, Canto IX, lines 61 - 63.

[10:38] The third direct address: INFERNO, Canto XVI, lines 127 - 132.

[13:58] The fourth direct address: INFERNO, Canto XX, lines 19 - 24.

[17:19] The fifth direct address: INFERNO, Canto XXII, line 118.

[20:22] The sixth direct address: INFERNO, Canto XXV, lines 46 - 48.

[22:41] The seventh direct address: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, lines 22 - 27.