We're ready to get to the fourth terrace of Purgatory proper--that is, the terrace where sloth is purged.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for a read-through of this terrace, starting at Canto XVII, Line 73 (or back three lines perhaps for a running start) through the end of Canto XVIII (at Line 145).We'll hear Virgil's great discourse on love as well as Dante's encounter with the racing slothful.Would you like to help underwrite the costs of this podcast? You can do so at this PayPal link right here.Here are the segments for this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:[02:11] A read-through of my rough (!) English translation of PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, line 73, through Canto XVIII, line 145.[14:21] Some initial thoughts about Virgil's discourse on love and the terrace of the slothful.

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