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Put that Twinkie down, you slob, and let's talk about GLUTTONY. The fourth circle of hell is where Dante encounters the people who lived their lives scarfing down cannoli and now spend their afterlife getting pelted with slime and chewed up by the three-headed beast Cerberus. It's also where the poet subtly introduces some key concepts that help make sense of the whole poem--the relation between body and soul, the nature of civil war, and ordo amoris--the principle of love that structures the entire divine comedy. Let's, erm...tuck in! PLUS: I am extremely excited to tell you about my new book, A Way With Words, out in February. Pre-order A Way With Words now: https://a.co/d/0femohqf Dante Translations, reviewed by Boze: https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-eleven-best-translations-of-the Get the Hollander translation: https://a.co/d/0iCgdYaQ Get the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation: https://amzn.to/4wPbiK7 Get the Anthony Esolen translation: https://amzn.to/4sgKLTj Get the Dorothy L. Sayers translation: https://amzn.to/4djdh2s Get the Allen Mandelbaum translation: https://amzn.to/4dG6izR Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:46 Gluttony: Material versus Spiritual Reality 10:23 Reading Canto VI 19:31 Cerberus, the Embodiment of Ravenous Hunger 25:44 Dante's Hell and the Classical Underworld 41:49 On Pride, Envy, and Avarice 50:11 The Seven Deadly Sins Explained 1:00:53 Book Announcement: A Way with Words
