of Dante Alighieri
The first cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
Part 3 (Cantos 12-17): The Seventh Circle of the violent; the River of Blood (tormenting the violent against others); the Wood of the Suicides; the Ring of Burning Sand (tormenting the violent against God, Nature, and Art); the poets meet the monster Geryon, guardian of the Eighth Circle; they descend into the great abyss on his back.
(Continued in next column)
Produced by Peter Duval Smith