We have been at fraud, in the eighth circle of hell, among the malebolge (or evil pouches) and with Dante the pilgrim and Virgil, for almost eighty-seven episodes of this podcast!
How is that possible? Well, partly because this circle is the largest single piece of real estate in all of COMEDY. From INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, line 1, all the way to Canto XXXI, line 6.
So here's the first of two sum-up episodes. This one's a retelling of the plot of INFERNO's fraud: who'd we see, how'd we react, how'd we make out?
Sit back and take in the plot of so much of INFERNO, and even COMEDY as a whole. It's worth the walk.
Here are the segments of this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:
[02:56] The geography of fraud.
[05:37] The first evil pouch: the panderers and seducers.
[07:48] The second evil pouch: the flatterers.
[10:27] The third evil pouch: the simoniacs.
[15:24] The fourth evil pouch: the fortune tellers.
[19:38] The fifth evil pouch: the barrators.
[24:58] The sixth evil pouch: the hypocrites.
[28:49] The seventh evil pouch: the thieves.
[31:47] The eighth evil pouch: the false counselors.
[34:33] The ninth evil pouch: the schismatics.
[37:51] The tenth and last evil pouch: the falsifiers.