Can you believe we got here? The final lines of the first canticle of Dante's masterwork, COMEDY.

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we climb out of hell to see the most gorgeous things we know: the stars in the heavens above.

Here are the segments of this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:

[00:58] My English translation of the passage: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, lines 127 - 139. If you'd like to read long, drop a comment, or print it off, go to my website: markscarbrough.com.

[02:35] Dante the poet enters Virgil's space: explanatory material.

[05:06] Why does Dante the poet so understate the climb out?

[06:21] Virgil's explanation of this cavern and the mountain above us stated as supposition because Virgil has no experiential knowledge of this geography.

[07:31] INFERNO may end on a point of uncertainty: What is this little stream they follow?

[10:12] INFERNO ends with the stars.

[11:48] More importantly, INFERNO ends with Virgil's exit from hell.