EPISODE · Jun 6, 2021 · 28 MIN
Further Questions About Inferno, Canto XIII
from Walking With Dante
On this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE, I'm headed toward the mail bag--or maybe the email bag--to look at three questions from listeners. These questions have come up over the course of the episodes about INFERNO, Canto XIII. I think they're important and interesting.One question is about my making clear the notion of literary interpretation I see in the text. Another offers an alternate reading for my outrage that souls have to breathe hard after they run through the thicket. And a final question has come up about how I translate Dante's text.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I talk through these questions, summarizing the discussions I've had online, in DMs, and through my website. I love that these questions have come up--and I wanted to share them with you.Here are the three segments of this episode:[01:27] A listener would like me to say more about the line in the text "I believe that he believed that I would believe"--and specifically, how that line relates to literary interpreation.[16:24] Someone else challenges me a bit on my modern readings of the text--and offers an alternate way to look at COMEDY that may solve some of my dilemmas about souls torn limb from limb or breathing hard in the thicket.[20:56] Finally, a question came up about how I translate the text. I thought I'd share my complete process here.
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