All The Ways Virgil Gets The Apocalypse Wrong: Inferno, Canto VI, Lines 94 - 115

Ciacco has fallen back into the muck of the third circle of INFERNO, never to be seen again--or at least not until the last judgment when the angelic trumpets resound across the universe.

As Dante-the-pilgrim and Virgil make their way around the circle and then start to descend to the fourth circle, they talk about the future--maybe prompted by Ciacco's Florentine prophecy, maybe for other reasons.

They talk about the BODILY resurrection--because what else would you discuss among the gluttons?

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we watch Virgil get the future wrong yet correctly assess the end of time itself in this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE.

Here are the segments of this episode:

[01:25] My English translation of this passage from INFERNO: Canto VI, lines 94 - 115. If you want to see this translation, head out to markscarbrough.com and look for the subheader "walking with Dante."

[03:03] Virgil's view of the apocalypse. Interesting that after Ciacco tells the future, Virgil feels he needs to as well. But whereas Ciacco tells a correct vision of the political future of Florence, Virgil gets the second coming of Christ wrong. Fascinating bits in this passage!

[07:12] Aristotle! Again! And as part of the apocalypse. Aristotle has been running under this canto since the start--and here comes out to the front of the discussion, which includes thoughts on the materiality of personhood, all from a old poet who sees Christ as a "baleful power."

[19:54] The last lines of Canto VI and the road's bend--that is, the first time we're starting to see how our pilgrim and his guide have to walk around a circle before they can find a place to descend.