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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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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?…
2 years, 1 month 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 . . . …
2 years, 1 month 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 …
2 years, 1 month 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 …
2 years, 1 month ago
Sapía, Part One—The Pilgrim Gets More (And Less!) Than He Bargained For: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 94 - 111
Season 2 Episode 103
Dante the pilgrim worked up the courage (or the flattery) to get one of the envious to speak up on the second terrace of Purgatory proper. She does .…
2 years, 1 month ago
Flattery Will Get You Irony: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 73 - 93
Season 2 Episode 102
Dante has finally come among the envious on the bare, bleak, blue-gray second terrace of Mount Purgatory. We've seen their condition: eyes stitched s…
2 years, 1 month ago
Eyes Stitched Shut: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 46 - 72
Season 2 Episode 101
The second terrace of PURGATORIO proves a wild ride into interiority, into the complicated sin of envy, and back into INFERNO.
Join me, Mark Scarbroug…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Voices Of Love And Alienation: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 22 - 45
Season 2 Episode 100
Dante and Virgil make haste across the second terrace of Purgatory before they're accosted by disembodied voices, calling them to the banquet of love…
2 years, 2 months ago