INFERNO

Audio commentary provided by Dr Sebastian Mahfood

CANTO 1 : Midway through life, Dante finds himself in a dark forest.

Inferno Canto 01

CANTO 2: Dante meets Virgil who is sent by Beatrice.

Inferno Canto 02

CANTO 3: Meeting Charon, the ferryman to the underworld.

Inferno Canto 03

CANTO 4: Arriving to talk to the noble pagan poets in Limbo.

Inferno Canto 04

CANTO 7: Rolling of boulders by the hoarders and spendthrifts.

Inferno Canto 07

CANTO 10: Heretics and sceptics burning in tombs.

Inferno Canto 10

CANTO 13: The committers of suicide turning into trees and being tortured.

Inferno Canto 13

CANTO 16: Dante exchanges news of Florence with his compatriots.

Inferno Canto 16

CANTO 19: Dishonest clergy are buried with their feet on fire.

Inferno Canto 19

CANTO 22: Ciampolo being tormented while talking to Dante.

Inferno Canto 22

CANTO 25: Cacus, the centaur, attacks a blasphemous sinner.

Inferno Canto 25

CANTO 28: The punishment of heretics.

Inferno Canto 28

CANTO 31: The giant Antaeus brings the pair into Hell.

Inferno Canto 31

CANTO 34: The poets leave Hell by climbing Lucifer's body.

Inferno Canto 34

CANTO 5: Francesca and Paolo and the punishment of the lustful.

Inferno Canto 05

CANTO 8: Crossing of the river Styx.

Inferno Canto 08

CANTO 11: Getting accustomed to the stench as the poets descend deeper into Hell.

Inferno Canto 11

CANTO 6: Calming of the watchdog Cerberus, surrounded by the gluttonous.

Inferno Canto 06

CANTO 9: Angel unlocking the door to the city of Dis.

Inferno Canto 09

CANTO 12: Centaurs punishing violent sinners.

Inferno Canto 12

CANTO 14: The statue in Crete with the tears that create all the rivers.

Inferno Canto 14

CANTO 17: Geryon, the symbol of Fraud, takes Dante and Virgil lower into Hell.

Inferno Canto 17

CANTO 20: Sorcerers and soothsayers walk with their heads on backwards.

Inferno Canto 20

CANTO 23: Hypocrites walking slowly with their clothes lined with lead.

Inferno Canto 23

CANTO 15: The punishment of the sodomites in burning sands.

Inferno Canto 15

CANTO 18: Flatterers and seducers are stuck in tar.

Inferno Canto 18

CANTO 21: Dante and Virgil escorted by devils.

Inferno Canto 21

CANTO 24: Thieves continually merge with reptiles and then disintegrate.

Inferno Canto 24

CANTO 26: Ulysses in the form of a flame explains how he died.

Inferno Canto 26

CANTO 27: A black demon takes a soul away from St. Francis.

Inferno Canto 27

CANTO 29: The falsifiers scratch off their scabs.

Inferno Canto 29

CANTO 32: The traitors frozen in ice.

Inferno Canto 32

CANTO 30: Virgil becomes angry with Dante who listens to the vulgar gossip.

Inferno Canto 30

CANTO 33: A devil controlling Branca d'Oria's body in the world.

Inferno Canto 33

Audio commentary provided by

Dr. Sebastian Mahfood

Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, is a retired Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Holy Apostles College & Seminary in Cromwell, CT. He first studied the Divine Comedy under Dr. Simone Turbeville in the spring of 1991 at the University of Texas in Arlington and began teaching it as literature half a decade later at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth. It wasn’t until he began studying philosophy and theology at Holy Apostles College & Seminary in Cromwell, CT, however, that he began to see within the Comedy the care Dante took in a very Marian framework to map himself onto the works of Aristotle and St. Thomas among the other philosophers and poets he meets in Limbo and the theologians and Church doctors he meets in Paradise. Dr. Mahfood was prepared by Dante, who was himself a Lay Franciscan, to become a lay member of the Dominican order, which considers study to be an act of prayer.

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