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Take Notes, Dante: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 46 - 60
Season 2 Episode 253
Beatrice continues her discourse at the end of PURGATORIO by offering Dante classical examples of her own obscurity, Christian resonances for the ver…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Beatrice And Her Cryptic "Five Hundred Ten And Five": PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 25 - 45
Season 2 Episode 252
As Beatrice and Dante continue to walk through Eden, she begins the final discourse that will end PURGATORIO: a cryptic, apocalyptic vision of the wo…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Walking With Beatrice In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 24
Season 2 Episode 251
From tragedy to comedy, the apocalyptic vision in Canto XXXII has come to an end and Beatrice accepts Dante as her walking companion in Eden.
A relati…
4 months ago
Apocalypse Even In Eden, Part Two: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 109 - 160
Season 2 Episode 250
In the last episode, we talked through some of the "superficial" factors in the grand apocalyptic vision in Eden: its structure, some diction cues, e…
4 months ago
Apocalypse Even In Eden, Part One: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 109 - 160
Season 2 Episode 249
Dante is now ready for the final apocalyptic vision of PURGATORIO . . . and in the last place we might expect it: in that bastion of innocence and pu…
4 months, 1 week ago
A Brief Introduction To Women In The High Middle Ages
Season 2 Episode 248
Before we continue with Beatrice (and even the young woman who tends the Garden of Eden), let's stop and talk all too briefly about the roles and ava…
4 months, 1 week ago
Beatrice, Changed; Dante, Panicked; And The Reader, De-centered: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 70 - 108
Season 2 Episode 247
Dante wakes back up from his unexpected sleep to find that the grand parade is heading off into the forest (or maybe the skies). He's in a panic that…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Asleep In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 49 - 69
Season 2 Episode 246
The griffin pulls the chariot or cart up to the denuded tree--the "widowed" tree--and the tree regenerates into a color reminiscent of other moments …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Games Of Interpretation In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 28 - 48
Season 2 Episode 245
The griffin rolls his chariot up to the foot of a denuded tree as Beatrice descends out of her ride. The symbolism (the allegories, in fact) become i…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Sound The Retreat In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 1 - 27
Season 2 Episode 244
Face to face with Beatrice, the pilgrim Dante is ready for more revelation. Problem is, even after Lethe he's still doing things wrong and must be co…
4 months, 3 weeks ago