Dr. Junius Johnson

I mean it's way more personal than either of the other two were because if there's something voyeuristic about hell and then if there's something convicting about purgatory, here it –

Paradiso really asks you to find your perfect place in the hierarchy such that your peace is also in his will.

And so that's what's great about teaching this text is there's so much underneath the surface to mine here.

But it's also what it means to be a reader of the Commedia, a lifelong reader of the Commedia.

It's in many ways, you're gathering resources and skills from the first two canticles that you're going to need if you're going to correctly interpret what's happening here in this last one.

And when you get to the end of Paradiso, you will know that you've missed a lot and that you're going to have to keep going through and it's going to keep revealing new depths as time goes on.

Yeah.

You know, I had wanted to talk about the Trinitarian and incarnational theology of Canto 33, but I kind of don't think I want to now because what Jonathan just said is such a good place to bring it to a close.

Yeah.

That's right.

It's come and see.

If you want to know what I saw, you have to take the journey.

Get in your little bark and let's go.

Well, gentlemen, it's time for some end notes.

And it is our custom to allow our guests to go first with the end note, which makes them least likely to be preempted by someone else.

So, Jonathan, what would you offer us as a follow-up, if you will, or a companion piece to Pardiso?

Yes.

Well, we had that Baroff lecture together.

Was that when her translation came out?

Am I remembering that correctly?