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All The Hopeful Ambiguity Of The Second Canticle: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 124 - 145
Season 2 Episode 257
We come to the end of the second canticle, of PURGATORIO . . . and it includes all the ambiguity and humanness we've come to expect, plus hopeful not…
5 hours ago
At Long Last, Matelda: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 103 - 123
Season 2 Episode 256
The procession continues away from Lethe and farther into the Garden of Eden until they come to a dark, frigid spot that stops them . . . a curious m…
3 days, 3 hours ago
Images, Schools, Obscurities, And The Promise Of Clarity: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 79 - 102
Season 2 Episode 255
After her final discourse in PURGATORIO, Beatrice and Dante enter into a brief conversation in which he admits he already has images stamped into his…
1 week ago
In Which Pilgrimage Becomes Crusade: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 61 - 78
Season 2 Episode 254
Beatrice concludes her monologue at the end of PURGATORIO with some dazzling metaphoric pyrotechnics, a slam on Dante's intellect, and a redefinition…
1 week, 3 days ago
Take Notes, Dante: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 46 - 60
Season 2 Episode 253
Beatrice continues her discourse at the end of PURGATORIO by offering Dante classical examples of her own obscurity, Christian resonances for the ver…
2 weeks ago
Beatrice And Her Cryptic "Five Hundred Ten And Five": PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 25 - 45
Season 2 Episode 252
As Beatrice and Dante continue to walk through Eden, she begins the final discourse that will end PURGATORIO: a cryptic, apocalyptic vision of the wo…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Walking With Beatrice In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 24
Season 2 Episode 251
From tragedy to comedy, the apocalyptic vision in Canto XXXII has come to an end and Beatrice accepts Dante as her walking companion in Eden.
A relati…
3 weeks ago
Apocalypse Even In Eden, Part Two: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 109 - 160
Season 2 Episode 250
In the last episode, we talked through some of the "superficial" factors in the grand apocalyptic vision in Eden: its structure, some diction cues, e…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Apocalypse Even In Eden, Part One: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 109 - 160
Season 2 Episode 249
Dante is now ready for the final apocalyptic vision of PURGATORIO . . . and in the last place we might expect it: in that bastion of innocence and pu…
4 weeks ago
A Brief Introduction To Women In The High Middle Ages
Season 2 Episode 248
Before we continue with Beatrice (and even the young woman who tends the Garden of Eden), let's stop and talk all too briefly about the roles and ava…
1 month ago