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WALKING WITH DANTE is coming back to start PARADISO on 26 July!
Season 2 Episode 261
We're about to start our flight among (and even through!) the stars on WALKING WITH DANTE. We've been on hiatus for several weeks, but we'll be back …
18 hours ago
An Update About Starting PARADISO soon
Season 2 Episode 261
Here's just a brief episode about where I am and how the podcast will start again in about six weeks. Hang tight and we'll be walking . . . no, actua…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Walking With Dante is going on a short hiatus
Season 2 Episode 261
Hey there. We're going to pause our slow-walk for a couple of months as I get out from under chemotherapy. We've come to the end of PURGATORIO and it…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Final Thoughts On PURGATORIO
Season 2 Episode 260
We've reached the end of our time on the great mountain of Purgatory . . . and in the great second canticle of COMEDY.
Here are some final thoughts, a…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Seven Addresses To The Reader In PURGATORIO
Season 2 Episode 259
Dante, the poet, steps out of the story seven times in PURGATORIO to address his reader directly--sometimes to spur the reader on to action, sometime…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Dante's Theories Of Writing Across INFERNO and PURGATORIO
Season 2 Episode 258
As one of three sum-up episode to conclude our time on Mount Purgatory, this one’s about Dante’s conception of what he’s doing when he’s writing, out…
3 months ago
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…
3 months, 1 week 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 months, 1 week 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…
3 months, 2 weeks 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…
3 months, 2 weeks ago