Virgil Gets The Apocalypse Wrong: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 94 - 115

Ciacco has fallen back into the muck, never to be seen again--at least not until the last judgment.

As the pilgrim and Virgil start to descend to the fourth circle, they talk about that future. They talk about the BODILY resurrection--because what else would you discuss among the gluttons?

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we listen to Virgil get the future wrong yet correctly assess the end of time itself.

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

[01:25] My English translation of INFERNO, Canto VI, lines 94 - 115. If you want to see this translation, find a more intense study guide, or drop a comment to continue the conversation about this episode, find its entry on my website, markscarbrough.com.

[03:03] Virgil's view of the apocalypse, after Ciacco tells the future. Whereas Ciacco offers a correct vision of Florence, Virgil gets the second coming of Christ wrong.

[07:10] Aristotle! And as part of the apocalypse. Aristotle has been running under this canto since the start.

[09:19] Virgil and our pilgrim, Dante, walk on into a mixed bag of souls and muck, a mash-up at odds with the Last Judgment but not at odds with his current political moment.

[20:03] The last lines of Canto VI and the road's bend, the first time we see that our pilgrim has to walk around a circle before he and Virgil can descend.