Inferno || canto 18, canto 19, canto 20 || read aloud audiobook

Read aloud together through Canto 18, Canto 19, and Canto 20 of Dante's epic poem The Inferno, Longfellow's translation, including his line-by-line annotations, and classic fine art spanning centuries illustrating the manuscript.
Canto 18: The start of the eighth circle of hell, which is subdivided into malebolge, or ditches of sinners. The eighth circle is all about fraud, but each ditch has its own separate variety of fraud. We go through two in this Canto: Panderers, and then Flatterers.
Canto 19: This malebolge discusses Simony, a fraud where the clergy use their position in the church for personal monetary gain. Dante tells off a dead Pope.
Canto 20: The magicians, soothsayers, and other people who claimed to be psychic. Because they falsely claimed the ability to see ahead of the present, they are doomed to have their heads on backwards for all eternity, now truly only able to see backward.
In this read aloud version of one of the pillars of all literature, we journey with Dante through the punishments of the underworld, as told over 700 years ago. In addition to the audiobook, we'll be including as many of Longfellow's footnotes as possible, plus a few notes by the narrator (Longfellow doesn't always explain who all the namedropped ancient philosophers are). The video features artworks spanning the centuries, from ancient Greek sculpture through modern day video games.
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Inferno ebook: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1004
Divine Comedy physical edition: bookshop.org/p/books/the-divi...
Longfellow's footnotes: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Divine...
Physical edition, Ciardi translation: bookshop.org/p/books/the-divi...
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