Walking With Dante

Expecting Those Ladies Of Consolation: PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 34 - 51

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Awakened from his dream by a foul odor, Dante the pilgrim finds himself fully out of tune with his surroundings: a bright new day on the mountain of P...

Let's Compare The First Two Dreams In PURGATORIO

23 Feb 2025

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We've had two dreams in PURGATORIO, one at Canto IX and one at Canto XIX (although it actually started in the last line of Canto XVIII).Let's take a m...

The Siren, The Lady, And Virgil: PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 16 - 33

19 Feb 2025

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Here's the second episode on the pilgrim's second dream in PURGATORIO. Things get wilder after the ugly lady becomes beautiful under the pilgrim Dante...

Chilly Dreams Before The Fifth Terrace Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 1- 15

16 Feb 2025

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Our pilgrim has fallen asleep on the edge of the fourth terrace of Mount Purgatory. He's seen the racing slothful but night has gotten the better of h...

Greedy Beasts That Refuse The Lure: A Read-Through Of The Fifth Terrace Of PURGATORIO, Cantos XIX - XXI

18 Dec 2024

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We've climbed up to the fifth terrace of Purgatory proper and come among the avaricious. These three cantos become increasingly complex and daring: in...

Fear, New Thoughts, And Dreams: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 130 - 145

15 Dec 2024

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The zealous slothful have run on, although there are still two coming in the rear, "biting" the penitents from behind with warnings about sloth.After ...

Speaking Truth To Power: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 97 - 129

11 Dec 2024

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At last, the slothful penitents arrive. They're a roiling horde in a crazy rush, whipped around the terrace to make up for the ways they were negligen...

The Sleepy Can Get Run Over: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 76 - 96

08 Dec 2024

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Our pilgrim has found himself in the dark of night, a time where he loses all effort on Mount Purgatory.But don't get too sleepy, Dante. You can get r...

Virgil, Reason, Love, And The Roots Of Modern Ethics: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 49 - 75

04 Dec 2024

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Virgil offers his third discourse on love at the middle of PURGATORIO to 1) show his work about ethics derived from Aristotle's notions of substance a...

Questions Of Pregnancy And Blame: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 40 - 48

01 Dec 2024

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Virgil has finished his second, clarifying discourse on love, but it hasn't done the trick. The pilgrim Dante is even more full of doubts . . . pregna...

The Cognitive, Rational Basis Of Love: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 19 - 39

27 Nov 2024

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In answer to the pilgrim's request that Virgil show his work on the nature of love, Virgil (and the poet Dante behind him) condense and recast the ver...

Excuse Me, Virgil, I Didn't Quite Get That: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 1 - 18

24 Nov 2024

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Virgil seemed to have come to a resting place in his monumental discourse on love: "Here's all I know . . . and all I don't know."But the pilgrim is l...

A (Sort Of) Short Summary Of PURGATORIO, Cantos I - XVII

20 Nov 2024

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We've come to the middle of PURGATORIO . . . and indeed the middle of COMEDY as a whole. Let's take a breather and review where we've been in Purgator...

Love Escapes Virgil: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 127 - 139

17 Nov 2024

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We come to the end of Virgil's (first) discourse on love, as well as the end of the central canto of PURGATORIO.But it's a strange end since Virgil ad...

Love Maps Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 106 - 126

13 Nov 2024

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Virgil continues his discourse about love, the central discourse in all of COMEDY. It's a tour de force of scholastic reasoning . . . that may leave s...

Love Is The Seed: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 91 - 105

10 Nov 2024

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Love is the seed … of all you do. It's news to me, given the state of the world. But not to Virgil. And certainly not to Dante's COMEDY.Virgil's exp...

Drowsy Yet Vigilant, Slothful Yet Expectant: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 73 - 90

06 Nov 2024

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Welcome to the fourth terrace of Purgatory proper!Dante and Virgil reach the top of the stairs just as night falls and the pilgim loses all possibilit...

The Fourth Terrace Of Purgatory Proper: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Line 73, to Canto XVIII, Line 145

03 Nov 2024

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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 ...

All The Light Ends With The Stars: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 40 - 72

25 Sep 2024

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Dante the poet is having great fun with light. He's playing with its various meanings: illumination, revelation, sunrise, sunset, concealment, power--...

Three Ecstatic Visions And Dante's Warning (To Himself?) About Anger: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 19 - 39

22 Sep 2024

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As Dante the pilgrim gets ready to leave the third terrace of Purgatory, the terrace of the angry, he has three ecstatic visions that warn about the d...

The Light Of The Imagination: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 1 - 18

08 Sep 2024

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Dante the pilgrim leaves Marco of Lombardy behind, but Dante the poet is not yet done with fundamental questions for his poem--particularly, how does ...

Marco Of Lombardy Redux: Questions From PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 46 - 145

04 Sep 2024

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We've finished Marco of Lombardy's central discourse about free will, the soul's maturation, and the systemic problems with the world. Now let's look ...

The Chatty Conclusion Of The Angry Marco's Discourse: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 130 - 145

01 Sep 2024

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Marco of Lombardy's time in COMEDY comes to an end with a chatty back-and-forth between him and the pilgrim Dante. Dante wants to compliment Marco on ...

The Best World Is A World With Two Suns: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 97 - 129

28 Aug 2024

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Marco of Lombardy, the angry penitent, continues his diagnosis of the world's problems. It's got only one sun, not two, as Rome had. And that one sun,...

The Shocking News That The Soul Is A Little Girl: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 85 - 96

25 Aug 2024

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Marco of Lombardy continues his discourse on free will, deep in the pitch-black smoke of the third terrace of Purgatory where the angry penitents conf...

The Cause Is In You: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 64 - 84

21 Aug 2024

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Dante the pilgrim has asked the angry Marco of Lombardy the cause of the world's ills. Marco responds with both exasperation and affection before turn...

How Can You Justify The Ways Of God (Or At Least, The Stars): PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 52 - 63

18 Aug 2024

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Dante's on the verge of exploding with doubt. Marco of Lombardy's snark about the loss of valor in the bows of this world has done little more than le...

Greeting The Wrathful And Slowly Changing COMEDY Itself: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 25 - 51

14 Aug 2024

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Wrapped in the dark, acrid smoke, Dante encounters one of the angry penitents and one of the most seminal figures in COMEDY, here at almost the exact ...

Solving The Knot Of Wrath: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 1 - 24

11 Aug 2024

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Dante finds himself in such dark, acrid smoke that he is reminded of the very inky desolations of Inferno. In fact, he has come to the darkest spot in...

Anger In PURGATORIO and INFERNO

07 Aug 2024

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In this interpolated episode among those on our slow-walk through Dante's masterpiece, COMEDY, let's discuss the specific sin of anger (or wrath), par...

The Third Terrace Of Purgatory Proper: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Line 85, Through Canto XVII, Line 72

04 Aug 2024

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We've now come to the third terrace of Purgatory proper, the ledge of wrath (or anger).Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we read through the passages that ...

Lighten Up Before The Dark Smoke Of Anger: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 115 - 145

31 Jul 2024

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Dante comes out of his ecstatic vision only to have Virgil question whether the pilgrim has drunk too much.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for this rare mom...

The Answer To Wrath Is Written On Your Face: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 94 - 114

28 Jul 2024

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Dante the pilgrim has already had one ecstatic vision as he stepped onto the third terrace of Purgatory proper. Now he has two more in quick successio...

The First Ecstatic Vision . . . Of COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 85 - 93

24 Jul 2024

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Dante and Virgil have stepped onto the third terrace of Purgatory proper and our pilgrim is hit with an ecstatic vision. In fact, the first one in a p...

Hunger, Light, Love, And The Theology Of Abundance: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 58 - 84

17 Jul 2024

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Dante the pilgrim has gotten one answer out of Virgil about the nature of abundance and scarcity in terms of heavenly good . . . but that answer was n...

Scarcity, Abundance, And The Poetics Between The Terraces: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 34 - 57

14 Jul 2024

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Dante and Virgil encounter the awaited angel as they begin their ascent to the third terrace of Purgatory proper.They hear two snippets of song. They ...

Redefining The Terms Of What Seems To Be: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 25 - 33

10 Jul 2024

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Dante the poet is playing a very crafty game. He's been pulling out all the stops with two metaphors to help us understand the weight, meaning, and ti...

Playing Around With The Sun: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 1 - 24

07 Jul 2024

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Dante and Virgil pass on beyond the envious along the second terrace of Purgatory proper. As we enter the first of the middle three canti of all of CO...

Virgil Inscribes Circularity Into Linearity: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 142 - 151

03 Jul 2024

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Having been accosted by two voices decrying the fate of the envious on the second terrace of Purgatory proper, Dante and Virgil begin to walk toward a...

Two More Voices On The Winds Of Envy: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 127 - 141

30 Jun 2024

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With Guido del Duca enmeshed in his tears, Dante the pilgrim and Virgil begin to talk on along the terrace of envy, searching for a way up to the thir...

Oh, For The Glory Days (That Maybe Never Were): PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 97 - 126

26 Jun 2024

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Guido del Duca reaches the climax of his diatribe: a nostalgic retrospective of the courts and families of Romagna. Where have the good guys gone?Is t...

Now You Know Who We Are: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 73 - 96

23 Jun 2024

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At long last, the speaker in PURGATORIO Canto XIV comes clean and reveals who he is . . . and who his compatriot is. They're Guido del Duca and Rinier...

The Descent Of The Arno Into Metaphoric Space: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 43 - 72

19 Jun 2024

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Dante has been cagey about where he's from, using periphrastic phrasing to describe the Arno valley without naming it.It was apparently the wrong thin...

The Many Textures Of Envy: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 22 - 42

16 Jun 2024

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Dante has started a conversation with two envious penitents . . . a conversation he might not be ready for. They prove more than his rhetorical match....

Be Careful Of The Company You Keep: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 1 - 21

12 Jun 2024

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Sapía has finished her amazingly complex speech with the pilgrim Dante . . . or has she? At the opening of Canto XIV, we're not sure who is speaking?...

Sapía, Part Four--The Coda: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 85 - 104

09 Jun 2024

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We've spent three episodes with this penitent envious soul, Sapía. Now let's look at the entire interchange between her and our pilgrim, Dante . . . ...

Sapía, Part Three—Rhetorical Games Reveal Both The Penitent And The Pilgrim: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 133 - 154

05 Jun 2024

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In the concluding moments of Sapía's speech, we find her in dialogue with Dante the pilgrim . . . who is both forthcoming in his confessional stance ...

Sapía, Part Two—Blasphemy Among The Penitents Of Envy: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 112 - 132

02 Jun 2024

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Sapía now tells her story to Dante the pilgrim . . . and it includes one of the most blasphemous lines in all of COMEDY.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as ...

Sapía, Part One—The Pilgrim Gets More (And Less!) Than He Bargained For: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 94 - 111

29 May 2024

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Dante the pilgrim worked up the courage (or the flattery) to get one of the envious to speak up on the second terrace of Purgatory proper. She does . ...

Flattery Will Get You Irony: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 73 - 93

26 May 2024

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Dante has finally come among the envious on the bare, bleak, blue-gray second terrace of Mount Purgatory. We've seen their condition: eyes stitched sh...

Eyes Stitched Shut: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 46 - 72

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The second terrace of PURGATORIO proves a wild ride into interiority, into the complicated sin of envy, and back into INFERNO.Join me, Mark Scarbrough...

The Voices Of Love And Alienation: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 22 - 45

15 May 2024

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Dante and Virgil make haste across the second terrace of Purgatory before they're accosted by disembodied voices, calling them to the banquet of love....

The Easy Climb Into Complex Meaning: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 1 - 21

12 May 2024

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Dante the pilgrim and his guide, Virgil, have arrived at the second terrace of Purgatory proper. As readers, we're not even sure what this terrace is ...

Dante, Aquinas, Aristotle, And The Fences Of Truth

01 May 2024

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Before we step onto PURGATORIO's terrace of envy, the second ledge of Purgatory proper, let's pause a moment to talk about the relationship among Dant...

The Second Terrace Of Purgatory: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Line 1, though Canto XV, Line 84

28 Apr 2024

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We've come with Dante the pilgrim and Virgil, his guide, to the second terrace of Purgatory, the terrace of envy.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for this in...

Erasing God's Writing Even If Virgil Smiles: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 118 - 139

24 Apr 2024

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Dante the pilgrim and Virgil have a little ways to go before they finally exit the terrace of pride. In fact, Dante has to come to a surprising revela...

Narrow Stairs, Contorted Similes, And The On-Going Poetry Of Hell: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 100 - 117

21 Apr 2024

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Dante and Virgil begin their climb from the first to the second terrace of Purgatory but as they do, they climb up in an incredibly contorted and diff...

The Climb Out Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 73 - 99

17 Apr 2024

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Dante and Virgil begin their exit from the terrace of pride on Mount Purgtory. To do so, they must encounter and angel who implicitly calls back Lucif...

Storytelling, Moral Allegory, And The Human Paradox: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 64 - 72

14 Apr 2024

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Dante the poet adds a coda to his (fake) ekphrastic poetry on the reliefs in the road bed of the terrace of pride on Mount Purgatory. He steps back an...

More Questions Than Answers About The Reliefs In The Road Bed Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 22 - 63

10 Apr 2024

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We've spent three episodes going over the reliefs in the road bed of the terrace of pride on Mount Purgatory. Now let's step back and look at the whol...

Walking On Pride, Part Three: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 49 - 60

07 Apr 2024

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We've come to the last four reliefs in the paving stones of the terrace of pride. We're almost on our way to the next terrace of Purgatory . . . but n...

Walking On Pride, Part Two: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 37 - 48

03 Apr 2024

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We're still walking on top of the reliefs of the prideful in the road bed of the first terrace of Mount Purgatory after the gate: the terrace of pride...

Walking On Pride, Part One: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 25 - 36

31 Mar 2024

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Virgil has directed Dante the pilgrim to look down at the road bed. Dante sees figures carved into the terrace . . . and he begins to walk on pride, t...

Art, Realism, And Dante's Sheer Audacity: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, lines 13 - 24

27 Mar 2024

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The opening of PURGATORIO, Canto XII, becomes even stranger as the poet Dante claims that the art he’s about to see beneath his feet is even clearer...

Dante's Pride Both Lanced And Swelling: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 1 - 12

24 Mar 2024

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Dante is still hunched over, going along like a dumb ox, paired up with the souls on the terrace of pride. His pride has been lanced by their monologu...

A Bad Boy Makes Good On The Terrace Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 109 - 139

17 Mar 2024

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Oderisi Redux: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 73 - 108

13 Mar 2024

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I said we'd move on to the second half of Oderisi da Gubbio's speech . . . but there's no way we can. There are still so many unanswered questions abo...

Proud Oderisi Confronts The Vagaries Of Artistic Fame: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 73 - 108

10 Mar 2024

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Proud Omberto, Humbled . . . Or Humbled Omberto, Still Proud: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 46 - 72

06 Mar 2024

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We've come to the first penitent who speaks after the gate of Purgatory: Omberto Aldobrandesco. He's from a storied, titled family, a nobleman brought...

Disorienting The Reader On The Terrace Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 25 - 45

03 Mar 2024

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Dante Rewrites The Foundational Prayer Of Christianity: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 1 - 24

28 Feb 2024

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When Art Envisions What Is: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 112 - 139

25 Feb 2024

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A Seam In The Narrative Sewn With Virgil's Murmurs: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 94 -111

21 Feb 2024

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The Moral Crux Of Justice And Compassion In The Last Intaglio: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 70 - 93

18 Feb 2024

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Realism And Its Discontents: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 46 - 69

14 Feb 2024

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After the intaglio about the annunciation, Dante moves beyond Virgil (or is prodded to move beyond his guide) to discover a second sequence, this time...

Art, Creativity, And The False Promise Of The New: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 28 - 45

11 Feb 2024

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The Post-Gate Letdown: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 1 - 27

07 Feb 2024

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The First Terrace Of Purgatory Proper: A Read-Through of PURGATORIO, Cantos X - XII

04 Feb 2024

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Screeching And Singing Into Purgatory Proper: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 130 - 145

20 Dec 2023

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Of Keys, Gates, And Letters On The Forehead: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 106 - 129

17 Dec 2023

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Three Steps Up To The Gate And Into An Interpretive Quagmire: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 94 - 105

13 Dec 2023

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The Forbidding Angel At The Gate: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 79 - 93

10 Dec 2023

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Brace Yourself For The Gate Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 64 - 78

06 Dec 2023

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Lucy, Virgil, The Christian Reality, The Classical Texture: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 43 - 63

03 Dec 2023

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A Dream Of Classical Sex And Sorrows: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 13 - 42

29 Nov 2023

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Asleep In A Messy Bed Of Classical Imagery: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 1 - 12

26 Nov 2023

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The Gate Of Purgatory: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto IX

22 Nov 2023

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The Generosity That Ends The Cantos Of Ante-Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 109 - 139

19 Nov 2023

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The Sun Sets On The Classical Landscape: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 85 - 108

15 Nov 2023

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Misogyny Rears Its Head: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 64 - 84

12 Nov 2023

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After Dante shocks Judge Nino and the poet Sordello with the revelation of the pilgrim's own corporeality, Judge Nino launches into a disgusting diatr...

I Saw Them, They Saw Me, So The Journey Is Real: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 46 - 63

08 Nov 2023

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Sordello leads Dante down three steps into the valley of the kings. There, our pilgrim Dante meets Judge Nino, perhaps a figure from the poet Dante's ...

The First Angels Descend From Heaven: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 19 - 45

05 Nov 2023

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Ecstatic While Longing For Home: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 1 - 18

01 Nov 2023

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The Kings Who Dodged What They Should Have Done, Part Two: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 82 - 136

29 Oct 2023

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In the last episode of this podcast, we glossed (or explained) the long list of rulers who are in the darkening dale ahead of us, as well as Dante, Vi...

The Kings Who Dodged What They Should Have Done, Part One: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 82 - 136

25 Oct 2023

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Problems In The Poetry Of The Elysian Fields: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 64 - 81

22 Oct 2023

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Virgil, Sordello, And The Limits Of The Will: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 37 - 63

18 Oct 2023

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Virgil Redefines Limbo And The Journey Across The Known Universe: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 16 - 36

15 Oct 2023

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Virgil Returns To Center Stage: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 1 - 15

11 Oct 2023

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The Rage Comes To Rest (Sort Of): PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 127 - 151

08 Oct 2023

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