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The Chatty Conclusion Of The Angry Marco's Discourse: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 130 - 145
Season 2 Episode 129
Marco of Lombardy's time in COMEDY comes to an end with a chatty back-and-forth between him and the pilgrim Dante. Dante wants to compliment Marco on…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Best World Is A World With Two Suns: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 97 - 129
Season 2 Episode 128
Marco of Lombardy, the angry penitent, continues his diagnosis of the world's problems. It's got only one sun, not two, as Rome had. And that one sun…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Shocking News That The Soul Is A Little Girl: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 85 - 96
Season 2 Episode 127
Marco of Lombardy continues his discourse on free will, deep in the pitch-black smoke of the third terrace of Purgatory where the angry penitents con…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Cause Is In You: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 64 - 84
Season 2 Episode 126
Dante the pilgrim has asked the angry Marco of Lombardy the cause of the world's ills. Marco responds with both exasperation and affection before tur…
1 year, 11 months ago
How Can You Justify The Ways Of God (Or At Least, The Stars): PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 52 - 63
Season 2 Episode 125
Dante's on the verge of exploding with doubt. Marco of Lombardy's snark about the loss of valor in the bows of this world has done little more than l…
1 year, 11 months ago
Greeting The Wrathful And Slowly Changing COMEDY Itself: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 25 - 51
Season 2 Episode 124
Wrapped in the dark, acrid smoke, Dante encounters one of the angry penitents and one of the most seminal figures in COMEDY, here at almost the exact…
1 year, 11 months ago
Solving The Knot Of Wrath: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 1 - 24
Season 2 Episode 123
Dante finds himself in such dark, acrid smoke that he is reminded of the very inky desolations of Inferno. In fact, he has come to the darkest spot i…
1 year, 11 months ago
Anger In PURGATORIO and INFERNO
Season 2 Episode 122
In this interpolated episode among those on our slow-walk through Dante's masterpiece, COMEDY, let's discuss the specific sin of anger (or wrath), pa…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Third Terrace Of Purgatory Proper: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Line 85, Through Canto XVII, Line 72
Season 2 Episode 121
We've now come to the third terrace of Purgatory proper, the ledge of wrath (or anger).
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we read through the passages that…
1 year, 11 months ago
Lighten Up Before The Dark Smoke Of Anger: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 115 - 145
Season 2 Episode 120
Dante comes out of his ecstatic vision only to have Virgil question whether the pilgrim has drunk too much.
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for this rare mo…
1 year, 11 months ago