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Greedy Beasts That Refuse The Lure: A Read-Through Of The Fifth Terrace Of PURGATORIO, Cantos XIX - XXI
Season 2 Episode 147
We've climbed up to the fifth terrace of Purgatory proper and come among the avaricious. These three cantos become increasingly complex and daring: i…
1 year, 7 months ago
Fear, New Thoughts, And Dreams: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 130 - 145
Season 2 Episode 146
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…
1 year, 7 months ago
Speaking Truth To Power: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 97 - 129
Season 2 Episode 145
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 neglige…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Sleepy Can Get Run Over: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 76 - 96
Season 2 Episode 144
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 …
1 year, 7 months ago
Virgil, Reason, Love, And The Roots Of Modern Ethics: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 49 - 75
Season 2 Episode 143
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 …
1 year, 7 months ago
Questions Of Pregnancy And Blame: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 40 - 48
Season 2 Episode 142
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 . . . pregn…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Cognitive, Rational Basis Of Love: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 19 - 39
Season 2 Episode 141
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 ve…
1 year, 7 months ago
Excuse Me, Virgil, I Didn't Quite Get That: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 1 - 18
Season 2 Episode 140
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 …
1 year, 7 months ago
A (Sort Of) Short Summary Of PURGATORIO, Cantos I - XVII
Season 2 Episode 139
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 Purgato…
1 year, 8 months ago
Love Escapes Virgil: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 127 - 139
Season 2 Episode 138
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 a…
1 year, 8 months ago