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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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 months ago
Love Maps Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 106 - 126
Season 2 Episode 137
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 …
1 year, 4 months ago
Love Is The Seed: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 91 - 105
Season 2 Episode 136
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 expl…
1 year, 4 months ago
Drowsy Yet Vigilant, Slothful Yet Expectant: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 73 - 90
Season 2 Episode 135
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 possibili…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Fourth Terrace Of Purgatory Proper: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Line 73, to Canto XVIII, Line 145
Season 2 Episode 134
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…
1 year, 5 months ago
Halfway Through PURGATORIO . . . And A Breather!
Season 2 Episode 134
We're stopping the walk across the known universe for a moment to catch our breath!
The podcast WALKING WITH DANTE has reached the middle of PURGATORI…
1 year, 6 months ago
All The Light Ends With The Stars: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 40 - 72
Season 2 Episode 133
Dante the poet is having great fun with light. He's playing with its various meanings: illumination, revelation, sunrise, sunset, concealment, power-…
1 year, 6 months ago