of Dante Alighieri
The first cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading In six parts
Part 2 (Cantos 6-11): The Third Circle of the gluttonous; the Fourth Circle of the misers and spendthrifts; the Fifth Circle of the wrathful; the poets cross the marsh of Styx; they are turned away from the City of Hell; the Heavenly Messenger intervenes: the Sixth Circle of the heretics; the prophecy of Farinata; Virgil explains the arrangement of Hell.
Produced by Peter Duval Smith