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Paul O'Brian
Jun 2, 2021
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Eyes Stitched Shut: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 46 - 72
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May 19, 2024 |
The Voices Of Love And Alienation: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 22 - 45
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May 15, 2024 |
The Easy Climb Into Complex Meaning: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 1 - 21
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May 12, 2024 |
Dante, Aquinas, Aristotle, And The Fences Of Truth
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May 01, 2024 |
The Second Terrace Of Purgatory: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Line 1, though Canto XV, Line 84
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Apr 28, 2024 |
Erasing God's Writing Even If Virgil Smiles: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 118 - 139
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Apr 24, 2024 |
Narrow Stairs, Contorted Similes, And The On-Going Poetry Of Hell: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 100 - 117
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Apr 21, 2024 |
The Climb Out Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 73 - 99
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Apr 17, 2024 |
Storytelling, Moral Allegory, And The Human Paradox: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 64 - 72
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Apr 14, 2024 |
More Questions Than Answers About The Reliefs In The Road Bed Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 22 - 63
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Apr 10, 2024 |
Walking On Pride, Part Three: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 49 - 60
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Apr 07, 2024 |
Walking On Pride, Part Two: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 37 - 48
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Apr 03, 2024 |
Walking On Pride, Part One: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 25 - 36
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Mar 31, 2024 |
Art, Realism, And Dante's Sheer Audacity: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, lines 13 - 24
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Mar 27, 2024 |
Dante's Pride Both Lanced And Swelling: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 1 - 12
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Mar 24, 2024 |
Some News That Affects Future Episodes Of PURGATORIO
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Mar 21, 2024 |
A Bad Boy Makes Good On The Terrace Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 109 - 139
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Mar 17, 2024 |
Oderisi Redux: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 73 - 108
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Mar 13, 2024 |
Proud Oderisi Confronts The Vagaries Of Artistic Fame: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 73 - 108
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Mar 10, 2024 |
Proud Omberto, Humbled . . . Or Humbled Omberto, Still Proud: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 46 - 72
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Mar 06, 2024 |
Disorienting The Reader On The Terrace Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 25 - 45
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Mar 03, 2024 |
Dante Rewrites The Foundational Prayer Of Christianity: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 1 - 24
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Feb 28, 2024 |
When Art Envisions What Is: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 112 - 139
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Feb 25, 2024 |
A Seam In The Narrative Sewn With Virgil's Murmurs: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 94 -111
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Feb 21, 2024 |
The Moral Crux Of Justice And Compassion In The Last Intaglio: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 70 - 93
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Feb 18, 2024 |
Realism And Its Discontents: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 46 - 69
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Feb 14, 2024 |
Art, Creativity, And The False Promise Of The New: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 28 - 45
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Feb 11, 2024 |
The Post-Gate Letdown: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 1 - 27
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Feb 07, 2024 |
The First Terrace Of Purgatory Proper: A Read-Through of PURGATORIO, Cantos X - XII
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Feb 04, 2024 |
Screeching And Singing Into Purgatory Proper: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 130 - 145
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Dec 20, 2023 |
Of Keys, Gates, And Letters On The Forehead: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 106 - 129
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Dec 17, 2023 |
Three Steps Up To The Gate And Into An Interpretive Quagmire: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 94 - 105
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Dec 13, 2023 |
The Forbidding Angel At The Gate: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 79 - 93
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Dec 10, 2023 |
Brace Yourself For The Gate Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 64 - 78
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Dec 06, 2023 |
Lucy, Virgil, The Christian Reality, The Classical Texture: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 43 - 63
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Dec 03, 2023 |
A Dream Of Classical Sex And Sorrows: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 13 - 42
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Nov 29, 2023 |
Asleep In A Messy Bed Of Classical Imagery: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 1 - 12
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Nov 26, 2023 |
The Gate Of Purgatory: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto IX
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Nov 22, 2023 |
The Generosity That Ends The Cantos Of Ante-Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 109 - 139
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Nov 19, 2023 |
The Sun Sets On The Classical Landscape: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 85 - 108
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Nov 15, 2023 |
Misogyny Rears Its Head: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 64 - 84
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Nov 12, 2023 |
I Saw Them, They Saw Me, So The Journey Is Real: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 46 - 63
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Nov 08, 2023 |
The First Angels Descend From Heaven: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 19 - 45
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Nov 05, 2023 |
Ecstatic While Longing For Home: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 1 - 18
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Nov 01, 2023 |
The Kings Who Dodged What They Should Have Done, Part Two: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 82 - 136
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Oct 29, 2023 |
The Kings Who Dodged What They Should Have Done, Part One: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 82 - 136
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Problems In The Poetry Of The Elysian Fields: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 64 - 81
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Oct 22, 2023 |
Virgil, Sordello, And The Limits Of The Will: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 37 - 63
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Virgil Redefines Limbo And The Journey Across The Known Universe: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 16 - 36
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Oct 15, 2023 |
Virgil Returns To Center Stage: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 1 - 15
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Oct 11, 2023 |
The Rage Comes To Rest (Sort Of): PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 127 - 151
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Oct 08, 2023 |
The Poet Dante Finally Loses Control: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 106 - 126
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Oct 04, 2023 |
Dante The Pilgrim Versus Dante The Poet
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Oct 01, 2023 |
You Don't Always Get The Poem You Want: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 76 - 105
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Sep 27, 2023 |
Sordello, Dante's Second Guide Across The Known Universe: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 49 - 75
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Sep 24, 2023 |
The Garbled Logic Of A Classical Poet In A Christian Poem: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 25 - 48
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Sep 20, 2023 |
Winners, Losers, And Beggars: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 1 - 24
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Sep 17, 2023 |
The Strange Brew Of Love And Disgust: PURGATORIO, Cantos VI - VIII
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Aug 13, 2023 |
"Che Son La Pia": PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 130 - 136
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Aug 09, 2023 |
The Struggle For A Son's Soul: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 85 - 129
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Aug 06, 2023 |
The Strangely Beautiful And Poetic Death Of Jacopo Del Cassero: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 64 - 84
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Aug 02, 2023 |
In A Rush For Peace: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 37 - 63
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Jul 30, 2023 |
The Prisoners Of Hope: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 22 - 36
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Jul 26, 2023 |
Distractions And The Demands Of Writing About Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 1 - 21
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Jul 23, 2023 |
Mobs On The Mountain: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto V
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Jul 19, 2023 |
Belacqua Redux: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 97 - 139
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Jul 16, 2023 |
Belacqua, The King Of Misdirection Through Centuries Of Reading Dante's COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 115 - 139
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Jul 12, 2023 |
When The Going Gets Tough, Some People Just Sit Down: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 97 -114
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Jul 09, 2023 |
Astronomy = Geography = Morality: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 76 - 96
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Jul 05, 2023 |
A Geocentric Rest Stop: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 52 - 75
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Jul 02, 2023 |
The Way Up Is Always Hard: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 19 - 51
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Jun 28, 2023 |
The First "Scientific" Disquisition Is A Grand Misdirection: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 18
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Jun 25, 2023 |
The Sad (And Fictional) Story Of Manfred's Corpse: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 121 - 145
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Jun 21, 2023 |
The First Great Penitent Of Purgatory, Manfred: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 103 - 120
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Jun 18, 2023 |
Of Flocks, Pilgrims, And Living In The “What Is": PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 79 - 102
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Jun 14, 2023 |
Virgil, The Flattering, Witty Sage: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 67 - 78
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Jun 10, 2023 |
The Chaos Of Virgil, The Pilgrim Dante, Reason, And Revelation: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 46 - 66
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Jun 07, 2023 |
Virgil's Bitter Distress: Purgatorio, Canto III, Lines 22 - 45
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Jun 04, 2023 |
Your Body, Your Alienation: Purgatorio, Canto III, Lines 10 - 21
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May 31, 2023 |
Virgil, The Failure . . . Maybe: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 1 - 9
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May 28, 2023 |
The Initial Climb: PURGATORIO, Cantos 3 - 4
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May 24, 2023 |
Part Two Of "What Is Purgatory?"
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May 21, 2023 |
Comparing PURGATORIO I & II With Each Other And With INFERNO I & II
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May 17, 2023 |
Cato's Back--Clearly Mad But A Bit Baffling As Well: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 118 - 133
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May 14, 2023 |
Refusing Love And Being Human: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 106 - 117
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May 10, 2023 |
Casella, We Love You But Hardly Know You: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 88 - 105
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May 07, 2023 |
Spooky Hugs: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 76 - 87
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May 03, 2023 |
Of Pilgrims, Pilgrimages, And Wonder: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 52 - 75
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Apr 30, 2023 |
Two Ways Of Being Dead: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 43 -51
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Apr 26, 2023 |
The First Angel Arrives In Purgatory With Lots Of Questions In Tow: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 25 - 42
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Apr 23, 2023 |
Being All Red Just When You're Supposed To Be All White: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 13 - 24
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Apr 19, 2023 |
Sunrise With Nowhere To Go: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 1 - 12
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Apr 16, 2023 |
Part One Of "What Is Purgatory?"
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Apr 12, 2023 |
Lost And Found In Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 112 - 136
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Apr 09, 2023 |
Just Tell Your Story And Stay Pliant: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 85 - 111
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Apr 05, 2023 |
Cato, Marcia, And The Problems They Cause: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 49 - 84 (Part Two)
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Apr 02, 2023 |
Virgil Out Of His Depths--Or Maybe Out Of Dante's: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 49 - 84 (Part One)
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Mar 29, 2023 |
A Lone Old Man Who Disrupts COMEDY And Changes The Rules Of The Afterlife: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 28 - 48
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Mar 26, 2023 |
Laughter And Loss, The Essence Of Being Human: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 13 - 27
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Mar 22, 2023 |
Of A Poet, His Hubris, And His Doubts: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 1 - 12
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Mar 19, 2023 |
The Shores Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Cantos 1 - 2
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Mar 15, 2023 |
An Introduction To PURGATORIO
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Mar 12, 2023 |
What We Missed And How You Can Further Your Own Slow-Walk Across INFERNO
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Feb 01, 2023 |
INFERNO: Final Thoughts Without Firm Conclusions
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Jan 29, 2023 |
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 32 - 34
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Jan 25, 2023 |
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 29 - 31
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Jan 22, 2023 |
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 26 - 28
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Jan 18, 2023 |
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 24 - 25
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Jan 15, 2023 |
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 21 - 23
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Jan 11, 2023 |
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 18 - 20
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Jan 08, 2023 |
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 14 - 17
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Jan 04, 2023 |
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 11 - 13
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Jan 01, 2023 |
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 8 - 10
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Dec 28, 2022 |
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 4 - 7
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Dec 25, 2022 |
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 1 - 3
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Dec 21, 2022 |
Let's Walk Out To See The Stars: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 127 - 139
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Dec 18, 2022 |
Despite All The Ribbing And Drubbing, Virgil Remains Virgil To The End: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 94 - 126
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Dec 14, 2022 |
More About Up, Down, And Spin: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 70 - 93
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Dec 11, 2022 |
The Way Down Is The Way Up: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 70 - 93
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Dec 07, 2022 |
Noshing On The Worst Sinners In Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 46 - 69
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Dec 04, 2022 |
A Brief History Of Satan (Up Until Dante's Vision)
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Nov 30, 2022 |
The Three Faces Of Interpretation . . . Or Satan: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 28 - 45
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Nov 27, 2022 |
An Overview Of The Seven Direct Addresses To The Reader In INFERNO
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Nov 23, 2022 |
Behold Satan: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 1 - 27
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Nov 20, 2022 |
The Zombie Apocalypse: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 118 - 157
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Nov 16, 2022 |
Virgil Returns For No Reason, Dante The Poet Slips, And More Fun On The Ice Sheet Of Cocytus: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 91 - 117
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Nov 13, 2022 |
Of Narcissists, Purgatory, Rage, Ugolino, And Our Poet Dante: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 90
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Nov 09, 2022 |
Count Ugolino As A Perversion And Affirmation Of The New Testament: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 78
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Nov 06, 2022 |
Placing Count Ugolino Inside The Scope Of Dante's Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 78
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Nov 02, 2022 |
Introducing The Last Great Sinner Of Hell, Count Ugolino: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 78
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Oct 30, 2022 |
Cannibalism And Polyphony: INFERNO, Canto XXXII, Lines 124 - 139
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Oct 26, 2022 |
Snitching To The Devil: INFERNO, Canto XXXII, Lines 103 - 123
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Oct 23, 2022 |
A Treacherous Poet On A Treacherous Ice Sheet: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 70 - 102
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Oct 19, 2022 |
An Overview Of The Similes (So Far) In Dante's COMEDY
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Oct 16, 2022 |
They Make Me So Mad That I Could Just Kill My Family: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 40 - 69
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Oct 12, 2022 |
Disembodied Voices In The Pastoral Landscape Of An Ice Sheet: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 16 - 39
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Oct 09, 2022 |
When Hell Gets So Bad You Despair Of Your Own Craft: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 1 - 15
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Oct 05, 2022 |
Welcome To The Foundations Of The Universe: Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 130 - 145
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Oct 02, 2022 |
Flattering Your Way To The Center Of The Earth: INFERNO, Canto XXXI, Lines 112 - 129
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Sep 28, 2022 |
Three Big Bad Giants With Not Much At Stake Except The Nature Of Comedy Itself: Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 82 - 111
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Sep 25, 2022 |
Nimrod, A Mighty Hunter, A Mighty Problem: INFERNO, Canto XXXI, Lines 46 - 81
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Sep 21, 2022 |
Towers? No, Giants! No, Towers! Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 28 - 45
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Sep 18, 2022 |
The Liminal Space Between The Eighth And Ninth Circles Of Hell: Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 7 - 27
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Sep 14, 2022 |
Our Farewell To Fraud With A Host Of (Maybe Unanswered) Questions: INFERNO, Cantos XVIII, Line 1, through XXXI, Line 6
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Sep 11, 2022 |
An Overview Of Fraud, The Eighth Circle Of INFERNO
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Sep 07, 2022 |
A Review And Overview Of Fraud's Tenth Evil Pouch: Inferno, Canto XXIX, Line 1, through Canto XXXI, Line 6
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Sep 04, 2022 |
The End Of Fraud—That Is, The Self In The Self Wishing The Self Were In The Self: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Line 130, through Canto XXXI, Line 6
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Aug 31, 2022 |
The Many Pleasures Of Insults: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Lines 104 - 129
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Aug 28, 2022 |
The Bottom Of Hell, The Beginnings Of Western Civilization: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Lines 91 - 103
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Aug 24, 2022 |
Behold The New Modern Man, Master Adam: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Lines 46 - 90
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Aug 21, 2022 |
Watch Out For Those Impersonators: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Lines 34 - 45
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Aug 17, 2022 |
Contagion, Fraud, And The Fall Of Civilizations: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Lines 1 - 33
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Aug 14, 2022 |
Gossip About The Fools Of This World Is About As Human As It Gets: INFERNO, Canto XXIX, Lines 124 - 139
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Aug 10, 2022 |
Laughter Is The Best Medicine, Even In Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXIX, Lines 109 - 123
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Aug 07, 2022 |
How To Hold Onto Your Humanity, Even In Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXIX, Lines 73 - 108
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Aug 03, 2022 |
A Medieval Hospital Of Horrors: INFERNO, Canto XXIX, Lines 37 - 72
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Jul 31, 2022 |
You Can Solve Your Family's Vendetta Even In Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXIX, Lines 1 - 36
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Jul 27, 2022 |
Bertran de Born, The Rationale For Inferno, & The Dangers Of Poetry: INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 112 - 142
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Jul 24, 2022 |
Of The Florentine Civil War, The Bloody Aftermath, And Its Child, Rage: INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 103 - 111
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Jul 20, 2022 |
Of The Roman Civil War, Idealism, And Its Child, Ambivalence: Inferno, Canto XXVIII, Lines 91 - 102
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Jul 17, 2022 |
The Wonder Of Historical Obscurity: Inferno, Canto XXVIII, Lines 64 - 90
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Jul 13, 2022 |
The Most Shocking Line In The Canticle Of Pain: Inferno, Canto XXVIII, Lines 46 - 63
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Jul 10, 2022 |
Dante, Muhammad, The Comedy, and Islam: Inferno, Canto XXVIII, Lines 22 - 45
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Jul 06, 2022 |
The Body In Pain Is The Wreckage Of Empire: INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 1 - 21
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Jul 03, 2022 |
A Comparision And Contrast Between Ulysses And Guido Da Montefeltro: Inferno, Cantos XXVI And XXVII
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Jun 29, 2022 |
The Demonic Struggle For Guido's Embittered Soul: Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 112 - 136
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Jun 26, 2022 |
Guido da Montefeltro's Take On His Own Life ("I Didn't Do Anything Wrong"): Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 58 - 111
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Jun 22, 2022 |
An Interview And Reading Of Inferno, Canto XXVIII, Lines 58 - 129 With J. Simon Harris And His New Translation Of Inferno
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Jun 19, 2022 |
Tiptoeing Around The Tyrants Of Romagna: Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 31 - 57
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Jun 15, 2022 |
Beware Of Classical Figures, Modern Politicians, And Maybe Poets: Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 1 - 30
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Jun 12, 2022 |
The Case For Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 85 - 142
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Jun 08, 2022 |
The Case Against Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 85 - 142
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Jun 05, 2022 |
The Glorious Monologue Of The Damned Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 85 - 142
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Jun 01, 2022 |
It's All Greek To Dante: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 64 - 84
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May 29, 2022 |
The Fifth Great Sinner Of Hell, Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 49 - 63
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May 25, 2022 |
Fireflies, Elijah, And Messy Metaphors: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 25 - 48
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May 15, 2022 |
Poetic Theory In The Crack Between Two Evil Pouches: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 13 - 24
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May 11, 2022 |
Take Heart, Fellow Walkers!
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May 08, 2022 |
More Questions Than Answers: An Overview Of The Metamorphosizing Thieves And The Seventh Of Fraud's Malebolge
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May 04, 2022 |
The Shifty Thieves, The Certain Judgment, The Uncertain Poet: Inferno, Canto XXV, Line 142 - Canto XXVI, Line 12
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May 01, 2022 |
Morphing Into Your Own Father: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 79 - 141 (Part Two)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
Identity Theft In The Middle Ages: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 79 - 141 (Part One)
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Apr 24, 2022 |
Turning The Beast With Two Backs Into Poetry: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 34 - 78 (Part Two)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
The Beast With Two Backs--Or, Two Things And Nothing: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 34 - 78 (Part One)
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Apr 17, 2022 |
Cacus, A Centaur Like None Other, Not Even In Classical Literature: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 17 -33
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Apr 13, 2022 |
Revenge Is Ever So Sweet: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 1 - 16
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Apr 10, 2022 |
The Bad Boys Get The Best Prophecies: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 121 - 151
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Apr 06, 2022 |
Snakebit: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 97 - 120
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Apr 03, 2022 |
A Swarm Of Snakes And Literary Texts: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 79 - 96
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Mar 30, 2022 |
Get Me Closer To That Unintelligible Stuff: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 61 - 78
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Mar 27, 2022 |
Virgil's Reprimand, The Pilgrim's Hypocrisy, The Poet's Games: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 46 - 60
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Mar 23, 2022 |
The Struggle Is Real: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 22 - 45
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Mar 20, 2022 |
The Stars, The Seasons, A Peasant, And Dante: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 1 - 21
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Mar 16, 2022 |
Reading The Comedy Without Believing The Comedy
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Mar 13, 2022 |
Virgil Humiliated, Virgil Adored: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 127 - 148
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Mar 09, 2022 |
Virgil Gawks: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 109 - 126
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Mar 06, 2022 |
Welcome To The Synod Of The Hypocrites: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 82 - 108
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Mar 02, 2022 |
The Lead Weight Of Hypocrisy: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 58 - 81
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Feb 27, 2022 |
A Review And Reading Of The Entire Fifth Evil Pouch Of Fraud: Inferno, Canto XXI, Line 1 - Canto XXIII, Line 57
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Feb 23, 2022 |
What You Read Determines What You See: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 4 - 57
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Feb 20, 2022 |
Grifters 1, Demons 0: Inferno, Canto XXII, Line 118 - Canto XXIII, Line 3
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Feb 16, 2022 |
The Game Is On: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 94 - 117
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Feb 13, 2022 |
Naming Names Among The Grifters: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 76 - 93
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Feb 09, 2022 |
The Demons Take Their Pound Of Flesh: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 40 - 75
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Feb 06, 2022 |
Strolling Down The Avenue With The Demons: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 13 - 39
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Feb 02, 2022 |
Mile-High Poetics In The Service Of Rank Vulgarity: Inferno, Canto XXI, Line 127 - Canto XXII, Line 12
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Jan 30, 2022 |
Bring On The Demons: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 103 - 126
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Jan 26, 2022 |
All About Dante And Demons
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Jan 23, 2022 |
High Virgil, Low Demons, And The Poor Pilgrim Dante: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 64 - 102
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Jan 19, 2022 |
Working Together To Make A Mess: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 46 - 63
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Jan 16, 2022 |
Virgil To The Rescue, A Demon On The Run: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 22 - 45
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Jan 12, 2022 |
Metaphors, Tautologies, And Pitch: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 1 - 21
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Jan 09, 2022 |
Breaking Every Text, Even Your Own: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 100 - 130
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Dec 22, 2021 |
Virgil And His Fraudulent Poem The Aeneid: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 52 - 99
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Dec 19, 2021 |
For A Guy So Hard On Dante, Virgil Sure Doesn't Know His Classical Sources: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 25 - 51
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Dec 15, 2021 |
Poets, The Biggest Fraudsters Of All: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 1 - 24
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Dec 12, 2021 |
A Look Back At The Structure, Beauty, And Engineering Of Inferno, Canto XIX
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Dec 08, 2021 |
Out Of Rage And Into Virgil's Arms: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 118 - 133
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Dec 05, 2021 |
The Rant To End All Rants (Also, The World): Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 88 - 117
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Dec 01, 2021 |
Just When You Think You Have Comedy Figured Out, It Breaks You: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 64 - 87
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Nov 28, 2021 |
Popes In Hell: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 46 - 63
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Nov 24, 2021 |
Let's Go Down Into The Third Evil Pouch: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 31 - 45
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Nov 21, 2021 |
Everybody Gets A Chance To Break The Church: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 13 - 30
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Nov 17, 2021 |
Of Prophets, Poets, And Pilgims: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 1 - 12
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Nov 14, 2021 |
Flattery And Feces, Together At Last: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 115 - 134
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Nov 10, 2021 |
The Moldiest, Muckiest, And Grossest Bits Of Inferno (So Far): Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 100 - 114
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Nov 07, 2021 |
The Fine Art Of Seduction Can Land You In Hell: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 67 - 99
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Nov 03, 2021 |
Pimps, Fraud, And Metamorphosis: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 40 - 66
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Oct 31, 2021 |
Our First Glimpse Of Old-School Demons: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 22 - 39
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Oct 27, 2021 |
Welcome To The Eighth Circle Of Hell: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 1 - 21
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Oct 24, 2021 |
A Look Back Over The Seventh Circle Of Hell In Dante's COMEDY
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Oct 20, 2021 |
Flying By The Seat Of Your Pants (Also, Geryon): Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 100 - 134
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Oct 17, 2021 |
Buck Up, It's Geryon (And Modern Narrative Techniques): Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 79 - 99
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Oct 13, 2021 |
The Poetics Of Color And Usury: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 46 - 78
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Oct 10, 2021 |
Poet And Pilgrim, Walking Alone Along The Cliff: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 28 - 45
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Oct 06, 2021 |
Behold The Beast Of Fraud And Poetic Technique: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 1 - 27
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Oct 03, 2021 |
Laying My Cards On The Table: How I Read Dante's Comedy
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Sep 29, 2021 |
Swearing The Truth About The Beast Of Fraud: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 124 - 136
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Sep 26, 2021 |
Cords, Leopards, Medieval Poets, And Medieval Pilgrims, All Straightened Out By Classical Poetry: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 106 - 123
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Sep 22, 2021 |
Tumbling Over A Simile About A Waterfall: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 91 - 105
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Sep 19, 2021 |
Civic Unity, Truth-Telling, And (Not) Making A Difference In Hell: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 79 - 90
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Sep 15, 2021 |
Stopping The Mouth Of History With The Words Of A Prophet: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 64 - 78
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Sep 12, 2021 |
The Answer To Dashed Hopes Is Far Harder Than Anger: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 46 - 63
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Sep 08, 2021 |
When History Speaks, It Doesn't Always Tell The Truth: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 28 - 45
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Sep 05, 2021 |
Brunetto Is Gone But Not Forgotten On The Burning Sands: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 1 - 27
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Sep 01, 2021 |
An Interview with Kristen Hook, A Dantista Writing Her Dissertation On Inferno, Canto X
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Aug 29, 2021 |
Are These Really The Homosexuals Punished In Inferno, Canto XV?
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Aug 25, 2021 |
Gossip, Ambivalence, And The Strangeness of Virgil's Presence: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 100 - 124
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Aug 22, 2021 |
A Pilgrim Walking Across Hell? Not Really. More Like A Writer: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 79 - 99
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Aug 18, 2021 |
Unanswered Questions and Unasked-For Prophecies: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 46 - 78
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Aug 15, 2021 |
The Fourth Great Sinner Of Hell, Brunetto Latini: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 25 - 45
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Aug 11, 2021 |
The Long View Across The Burning Sands: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 1 - 24
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Aug 08, 2021 |
An Interview with the poet and novelist J. Simon Harris, a translator of Dante's INFERNO
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Jul 04, 2021 |
Exploring A Coda To A Canto And Cleaning Up The Canto As A Whole: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 121 - 142
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Jun 30, 2021 |
The Old Man Of Crete PART TWO--Sewing The Canto Back Together: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 94 - 120
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Jun 27, 2021 |
The Old Man Of Crete PART ONE--A Statue Rises From Four Other Texts: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 94 - 120
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Jun 23, 2021 |
Dante Calmly Tells The Tale And Virgil Makes A Wild Claim: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 76 - 93
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Jun 20, 2021 |
Blaspheming Against Jove Smack In The Middle Of A Christian Poem: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 43 - 78
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Jun 16, 2021 |
It's Snowing Fire And You're Naked: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 19 - 42
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Jun 13, 2021 |
Welcome To The Arid Plains Of The Blasphemers: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 1 - 18
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Jun 09, 2021 |
Further Questions About Inferno, Canto XIII
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Jun 06, 2021 |
One Last Suicide, One Last Irony, One Last Intertextuality: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 127 - 151
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Jun 02, 2021 |
The Limits Of Credulity In A Poem About The Afterlife: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 109 - 126
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May 30, 2021 |
Sorrows And Windows For Sorrow: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 79 - 108
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May 26, 2021 |
The Third Great Sinner of Hell, Pier delle Vigne: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 46 - 78
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May 23, 2021 |
Maybe You Can't Trust Those Old Roman Poets: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 1 - 45
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May 19, 2021 |
Getting Ready For Canto XIII Of Dante's Inferno
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May 16, 2021 |
At Long Last, The Violent Appear: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 103 - 139
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May 12, 2021 |
Astride a Centaur: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 76 - 102
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May 09, 2021 |
The Centaurs--A Rider Without A Horse Or A Horse Without A Rider: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 49 - 75
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May 05, 2021 |
More On Virgil's Life Outside Of Comedy: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 31 - 48
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May 02, 2021 |
This Way To The Violent, Down The Slope, Past The Minotaur: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 1 - 30
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Apr 28, 2021 |
Too Many Footnotes And Not Enough Time To Reflect
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Apr 25, 2021 |
Usury + Violence = A Theory Of Art: Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 91 - 114
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Apr 21, 2021 |
Virgil, Your Map Of Hell Needs A Little Work: Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 67 - 90
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Apr 18, 2021 |
The Greatest Sin Isn't Pride--It's Fraud: Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 52 - 66
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Apr 14, 2021 |
The Sins Of Violence Explained (Sort Of): Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 28 - 51
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Apr 11, 2021 |
Mapping The Uncharted At The Beginning Of The Age Of Discovery: Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 16 - 27
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Apr 07, 2021 |
The Dazzle of Beatrice, The Stench Of Hell: Inferno, Canto X, Line 121b, through Canto XI, Lines 15
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Apr 04, 2021 |
Where Is My Son? A Thematic And Structural Overview Of INFERNO, Canto X
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Mar 31, 2021 |
Repenting To A Heretic: Inferno, Canto X, Lines 94 - 121a
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Mar 28, 2021 |
How To Be Human And How To Quit Being Human: Inferno, Canto X, Lines 73 - 93
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Mar 24, 2021 |
Poetic Rivalry And Poetic Guilt: Inferno, Canto X, Lines 52 - 72
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Mar 21, 2021 |
The Second Great Sinner Of Hell, Farinata degli Uberti: Inferno, Canto X, Lines 22 - 51
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Mar 17, 2021 |
Cosmic Battles And Interpersonal Squabbles: Inferno, Canto X, Lines 1 - 21
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Mar 14, 2021 |
Straight On, Then Turn Right For The Heretics: Inferno, Canto IX, Lines 107 - 133
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Mar 10, 2021 |
Saved At Last . . . By Mercury, Christ, The Archangel Michael, Someone: Inferno, Canto IX, Lines 64 - 106
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Mar 07, 2021 |
How Much Classical Imagery Can One Poem Take? Inferno, Canto IX, Lines 34 - 63
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Mar 03, 2021 |
Did Dante Intend All Of This?
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Feb 28, 2021 |
Erichtho And The Complications In Virgil's Backstory: Inferno, Canto IX, Lines 1 - 33
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Feb 24, 2021 |
Being Human In Hell: Inferno, Canto VIII, Lines 97 - 130
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Feb 21, 2021 |
The Walls Of Dis And The Limits Of Virgil's Imagination: Inferno, Canto VIII, Lines 64 - 96
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Feb 17, 2021 |
Angry Among The Angry: Inferno, Canto VIII, Lines 31 - 63
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Feb 14, 2021 |
It's All Plot: An Overview Of The Fifth Circle Of Wrath
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Feb 10, 2021 |
Dante Is The Poet Who Stands Between The Classical And Modern Worlds: Inferno, Canto VIII, Lines 7 - 30
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Feb 07, 2021 |
Nothing In Dante's Own Hand: A Brief History Of COMEDY's Manuscripts
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Feb 03, 2021 |
The Biggest Crack In Hell Is In The Poetry, Not The Landscape: Inferno, Canto VIII, Lines 1 - 6
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Jan 31, 2021 |
On To The Wrathful And The Fifth Circle Of Hell: Inferno, Canto VII, Lines 97 - 130
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Jan 27, 2021 |
O, Fortuna: Inferno, Canto VII, Lines 67 - 96
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Jan 24, 2021 |
Structure, Fortune, And The Cracks In Dante's Poetry: Inferno, Canto VII, Lines 36 - 66
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Jan 20, 2021 |
Jousting With Plutus And Greed In The Fourth Circle Of Hell: Inferno, Canto VII, Lines 1 - 35
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Jan 17, 2021 |
All The Ways Virgil Gets The Apocalypse Wrong: Inferno, Canto VI, Lines 94 - 115
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Jan 13, 2021 |
The Bloodbath That Was, Is, And Will Be Florence: Inferno, Canto VI, Lines 58 - 93
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Jan 10, 2021 |
The Curious Case Of Ciacco, The Glutton: Inferno, Canto VI, Lines 34 - 57
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Jan 06, 2021 |
Wide Awake With Cereberus In The Third Circle Of Hell: Inferno, Canto VI, Lines 1 - 33
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Jan 03, 2021 |
The Case For Francesca: Inferno, Canto V, Lines 88 - 142
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Dec 20, 2020 |
The Case Against Francesca: Inferno, Canto V, Lines 88 - 142
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Dec 16, 2020 |
Damning Lust And Then Confusing It With Love: Inferno, Canto V, Lines 52 - 87
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Dec 13, 2020 |
The Lush Poetry Of The Lustful: Inferno, Canto V, Lines 25 - 51
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Dec 09, 2020 |
An Introduction to the Seven Deadly Sins
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Dec 06, 2020 |
The Second Circle Of Hell And Minos, The Connoisseur Of Sin: Inferno, Canto V, Lines 1 - 24
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Dec 02, 2020 |
A Look Back At The First Four Cantos of INFERNO
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Nov 29, 2020 |
Cataloguing The Greats You Know And The Ones You Wish You Knew: Inferno, Canto IV, Lines 115 - 151
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Nov 25, 2020 |
Here Come The Great Poets Of Limbo: Inferno, Canto IV, Lines 85 - 114
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Nov 22, 2020 |
Virgil And His Misunderstanding Of The Harrowing Of Hell: Inferno, Canto IV, Lines 46 - 84
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Nov 18, 2020 |
Limbo Explained Theologically and Historically
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Nov 15, 2020 |
Welcome To Virgil's Home Turf, The First Circle Of Hell, Limbo: Inferno, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 45
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Nov 14, 2020 |
When Crossing The River Into Hell, Don't Faint: Inferno, Canto III, Lines 109 - 136
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Nov 08, 2020 |
Charon, The Ferryman Of The Damned: Inferno, Canto III, Lines 70 - 108
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Nov 04, 2020 |
Sometimes, You Get The Hell You Want: Inferno, Canto III, Lines 22 - 69
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Nov 01, 2020 |
Abandon Hope For It's The Gate Of Hell: Inferno, Canto III, Lines 1 - 21
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Oct 28, 2020 |
Bested By Beatrice, Bested By Virgil: Inferno, Canto II, Lines 115 - 141
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Oct 25, 2020 |
The Way You Get Saved Is With A Story: Inferno, Canto II, Lines 76 - 114
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Oct 21, 2020 |
Rhetorical Battles And The Quest To Tell The Tale In Inferno, Canto II, Lines 43 - 75
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Oct 18, 2020 |
"I Am Not Aeneas, I Am Not Saint Paul": False Modesty In Inferno, Canto II, Lines 1 - 42
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Oct 14, 2020 |
We've Finished Inferno, Canto I: Here's a Look Back And Look Around The Entire Poem
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Oct 11, 2020 |
Virgil The Poet Becomes Virgil The Prophet: Inferno, Canto I, Lines 97 - 136
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Oct 07, 2020 |
Virgil To The Rescue: Inferno, Canto I, Lines 67 - 96
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Oct 04, 2020 |
A Bestiary Of Leopards, Lions, And Wolves: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 28 - 66
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Sep 30, 2020 |
Turbulence In The Lake Of The Heart: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 10 - 27
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Sep 26, 2020 |
Who was Dante?
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Sep 26, 2020 |
Waking Up Lost: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 1 - 9
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Sep 26, 2020 |
A Quick Introduction To WALKING WITH DANTE
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Sep 26, 2020 |