hBjcDQfnMguRXVnjTNgM Virgil Gets The Apocalypse Wrong: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 94 - 115 - Walking With Dante

Episode 32

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

Published on: 13th January, 2021

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.

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A passage-by-passage stroll through Dante’s DIVINE COMEDY with Mark Scarbrough
Ever wanted to read Dante's Divine Comedy? Come along with us! We're not lost in the scholarly weeds. (Mostly.) We're strolling through the greatest work (to date) of Western literature. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I take on this masterpiece passage by passage. I'll give you my rough English translation, show you some of the interpretive knots in the lines, let you in on the 700 years of commentary, and connect Dante's work to our modern world. The pilgrim comes awake in a dark wood, then walks across the known universe. New episodes every Sunday and Wednesday.
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Former lit professor, current cookbook writer, creator of two podcasts, writer of thirty-five (and counting) cookbooks, author of one memoir (coming soon!), married to a chef (my cookbook co-writer, Bruce Weinstein), and with him, the owner of two collies, all in a very rural spot in New England. My life's full and I'm up for more challenges!