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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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
Three Ecstatic Visions And Dante's Warning (To Himself?) About Anger: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 19 - 39
Season 2 Episode 132
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 …
1 year, 10 months ago
Oops . . . sorry . . . my mistake!
Season 2 Episode 135
Just a brief note to say that I've made a mistake in uploading sound files and I'm too remote a location to make any changes. I'll fix the last episo…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Light Of The Imagination: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 1 - 18
Season 2 Episode 131
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…
1 year, 10 months ago
Marco Of Lombardy Redux: Questions From PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 46 - 145
Season 2 Episode 130
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…
1 year, 10 months ago