The Melancholic's Almanac presents Dante's Inferno, Canto by Canto

The Melancholic's Almanac presents Dante's Inferno, Canto by Canto

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The Melancholic's Almanac presents Dante's Inferno, Canto by Canto episodes

  • The Gluttons: Canto VI of Dante's Inferno

    Ciacco speaks to Dante about Florentine strife, in an engraving by Gustav Doré



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    27 min
  • Milton's Satan: A Reading and Brief Explication of Book 4 of Paradise Lost

    This week I am taking a break from posting my lectures on Dante’s Inferno and instead sharing with you a short introduction I recorded on the character of Milton’s Satan from Paradise Lost. The text considered here is from Book 4.

    CS Lewis wrote that "To admire [the character of Milton's] Satan is to give one's vote to...a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography."

    Sound familiar? It should. Not only is this truth found in Dante’s Inferno but in our own culture today. “Incessant autobiography” captures our collective hell of online echo chambers, eternally repeating our own self-admiration without joy or peace.

    Enjoy the recording and discussion. I’ll be back next week with another episode on Dante.

    Dr. Mark McCullough



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    12 min
  • Damned Love: Canto V of Dante's Inferno

    Paolo and Francesca da Rimini by British artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painted in 1855.



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    27 min
  • Lust: Canto 5 of Dante's Inferno (Part 1)

    There is no greater pain

    than to remember, in our present grief,

    past happiness.



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    34 min
  • Limbo: Reading Canto IV of Dante's INFERNO

    For this defect and for no other guilt,

    we here are lost. In this alone we suffer:

    Cut off from hope, we live on in desire.



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    31 min

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The Melancholic’s Almanac (TMA) is a podcast on the varieties of ways the humanities illuminates the field of psychology, the practice of psychotherapy, and the experiences of those who suffer from mental illness. One listener describes it as "the only psyche-informed podcast calculated using the study of good books by dead people to predict sudden inclinations, gathering neuroses, and fine crops of contemporary vexations."