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Episode 37 - Canto 4, and reflections on the scope of the Comedy.
In this episode we continue the journey through the first book, and reflect on the framing of Dante waking up in the first circle of the Inferno, Limbo. He sees the souls lost there, and then meets the Greek philosophers including Aristotle. (More detail on this is already in Episode 32 & 33 on this podcast!)
Here is the opening, as Dante "wakes up" to the journey inside the Inferno:
A heavy clap of thunder! I awoke
from the deep sleep that drugged my mind-startled,
the way one is when shaken out of sleep.
I turned my rested eyes from side to side,
already on my feet and, staring hard,
I tried my best to find out where I was.
Canto IV, Verse 1-6
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In this episode we continue the journey through the first book, and reflect on the framing of Dante waking up in the first circle of the Inferno, Limbo. He sees the souls lost there, and then meets the Greek philosophers including Aristotle. (More detail on this is already in Episode 32 & 33 on this podcast!)
Here is the opening, as Dante "wakes up" to the journey inside the Inferno:
A heavy clap of thunder! I awoke
from the deep sleep that drugged my mind-startled,
the way one is when shaken out of sleep.
I turned my rested eyes from side to side,
already on my feet and, staring hard,
I tried my best to find out where I was.
Canto IV, Verse 1-6
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