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Virgil Inscribes Circularity Into Linearity: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 142 - 151
Season 2 Episode 113
Having been accosted by two voices decrying the fate of the envious on the second terrace of Purgatory proper, Dante and Virgil begin to walk toward …
1 year, 9 months ago
Two More Voices On The Winds Of Envy: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 127 - 141
Season 2 Episode 112
With Guido del Duca enmeshed in his tears, Dante the pilgrim and Virgil begin to talk on along the terrace of envy, searching for a way up to the thi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Oh, For The Glory Days (That Maybe Never Were): PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 97 - 126
Season 2 Episode 111
Guido del Duca reaches the climax of his diatribe: a nostalgic retrospective of the courts and families of Romagna. Where have the good guys gone?
Is …
1 year, 9 months ago
Now You Know Who We Are: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 73 - 96
Season 2 Episode 110
At long last, the speaker in PURGATORIO Canto XIV comes clean and reveals who he is . . . and who his compatriot is. They're Guido del Duca and Rinie…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Descent Of The Arno Into Metaphoric Space: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 43 - 72
Season 2 Episode 109
Dante has been cagey about where he's from, using periphrastic phrasing to describe the Arno valley without naming it.
It was apparently the wrong thi…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Many Textures Of Envy: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 22 - 42
Season 2 Episode 108
Dante has started a conversation with two envious penitents . . . a conversation he might not be ready for. They prove more than his rhetorical match…
1 year, 9 months ago
Be Careful Of The Company You Keep: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 1 - 21
Season 2 Episode 107
Sapía has finished her amazingly complex speech with the pilgrim Dante . . . or has she? At the opening of Canto XIV, we're not sure who is speaking?…
1 year, 9 months ago
Sapía, Part Four--The Coda: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 85 - 104
Season 2 Episode 106
We've spent three episodes with this penitent envious soul, Sapía. Now let's look at the entire interchange between her and our pilgrim, Dante . . . …
1 year, 10 months ago
Sapía, Part Three—Rhetorical Games Reveal Both The Penitent And The Pilgrim: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 133 - 154
Season 2 Episode 105
In the concluding moments of Sapía's speech, we find her in dialogue with Dante the pilgrim . . . who is both forthcoming in his confessional stance …
1 year, 10 months ago
Sapía, Part Two—Blasphemy Among The Penitents Of Envy: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 112 - 132
Season 2 Episode 104
Sapía now tells her story to Dante the pilgrim . . . and it includes one of the most blasphemous lines in all of COMEDY.
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as …
1 year, 10 months ago