Mark Vernon

Dante's Divine Comedy

Religion EN ↓ 144 episodes

I invite you to experience the odyssey, by accompanying me as I discuss each canto. My book, Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide For The Spiritual Journey, is published by Angelico Press for the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death on 13th September 2021. For more information see - www.markvernon.com

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Author

Mark Vernon

Category

Religion

Podcast website

www.markvernon.com

Latest episode

May 4, 2025

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Episodes

Inferno 19 05.03.2020

Dante perceives the bleak bankruptcy of exchanging spiritual gifts for temporal goods.

Inferno 18 03.03.2020

They are in the eighth circle, the place called Malebolge, as the descent deepens further.

Inferno 17 29.02.2020

Approaching the cliffs into the deeper reaches of hell, they confront the monster Geryon and souls disfigured by usury.

Inferno 16 28.02.2020

Ominously tumbling waters. An odd encounter with three trapped souls. And then stranger things happen.

Inferno 15 25.02.2020

Following the red stream, across burning sands, a gaggle of souls approach them.

Inferno 14 23.02.2020

On the edge of an expanse of burning sand and falling fire, they speak with a soul cursing Jupiter and see a vision.

Inferno 13 21.02.2020

They enter an ugly wood to encounter souls who killed themselves.

Inferno 12 18.02.2020

Descending a steep slope, they see the minotaur, centaurs and a river of boiling blood.

Inferno 11 14.02.2020

A foul stench prompts illumination of lower hell's subtler entrapments and evils.

Inferno 10 11.02.2020

Now inside Dis, they meet those who have followed their own way: heretics.

Inferno 8 07.02.2020

Still in the fifth circle, they face the river Styx and the terror of Dis.

Inferno 9 07.02.2020

Terrified by the demons that block their path, Dante and Virgil wait.

Inferno 7 04.02.2020

Virgil and Dante are in the fourth and fifth circles of hell shocked by souls trapped by money and by anger.

Inferno 6 01.02.2020

The third circle of hell brings filth and muck, Cerberus and Ciacco.

Inferno 5 30.01.2020

Virgil and Dante enter the second circle of hell and meet those whose love in life has trapped them.

Inferno 4 28.01.2020

Virgil leads Dante into the first circle of hell where they meet souls who didn't live their lives, as well as pagan poets and philosophers who did.

Inferno 3 25.01.2020

Dante and Virgil pass through the gates of hell and enter the vestibule to encounter anxious souls.

Inferno 2 25.01.2020

Dante wavers and Virgil reveals why he is here. 

Inferno 1 24.01.2020

Dante frightened by his plight, terrorised by strange beasts, discovers a guide. 

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