About this podcast
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…
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Walking With Dante
About this podcast
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…
Recent episodes
- The Souls of the Universe: PARADISO, Canto II, Lines 127 - 1485 days ago · 27 min
- The Diversity of Being in a Universe of Light: PARADISO, Canto II, Lines 106 - 1262 Sept · 29 min
- Testing Theology With Optics: PARADISO, Canto II, Lines 85 - 10530 Aug · 26 min
- Mixed Metaphors and the Limits of Human Senses: PARADISO, Canto II, Lines 64 - 8426 Aug · 21 min
- Of Moon Spots and Virgil: PARADISO, Canto II, Lines 46 - 6323 Aug · 21 min
- Incarnated in the Moon: PARADISO, Canto II, Lines 19 - 4519 Aug · 29 min
- Go Home: PARADISO, Canto II, Lines 1 - 1816 Aug · 25 min
- Of Natural Instincts and Their Natural Ends: PARADISO, Canto I, Lines 115 - 14212 Aug · 24 min
- Sailing Across the Great Sea of "To Be": PARADISO, Canto I, Lines 94 - 1149 Aug · 26 min
- Returning Home Through the Music of the Spheres: PARADISO, Canto I, Lines 61 - 935 Aug · 37 min
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