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The Whole World Is On Fire: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 1 - 18
Season 2 Episode 209
Our pilgrim has come to an impasse: the flames of lust. There's no way forward except to step into them. He must finally feel the sufferings that he …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Final Thoughts About Poetry, Lust, And Meaning On The Last Terrace Of Mount Purgatory
Season 2 Episode 208
As we pass Arnaut Daniel, the last penitent soul of Mount Purgatory, let's look back over the discussions of poetry and lust in the seventh (and even…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
French Poetry Doesn't Have To Condemn You: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 136 - 148
Season 2 Episode 207
Guido Guinizzelli has pointed to another figure in the purifying flames of Purgatory's seventh terrace. And now he steps forward, one of the greatest…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Sweet Becomes Truthful Becomes Poetic: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 115 - 135
Season 2 Episode 206
Dante has found his poetic father, Guido Guinizzelli, burning in the fires of lust on the final terrace of Mount Purgatory. Our pilgrim-poet has prai…
7 months ago
The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 94 - 114
Season 2 Episode 205
Guido Guinizzelli has named himself and our pilgrim, Dante, is aghast.
He gets lost in a classical simile that almost loses its sense, only to finally…
7 months ago
Queenly Embeasting: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 67 - 93
Season 2 Episode 204
We finally come to know who has been our spokesperson for the lustful penitents: Guido Guinizzelli, perhaps the most important Italian poet working b…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Pilgrim Writes His Way Into Revelation: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 49 - 66
Season 2 Episode 203
We've seen the two crowds of the lustful on the seventh terrace of Mount Purgatory and we clearly identified them in the last passage (and on the las…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Episode In Which My Voice Breaks: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 25 - 48
Season 2 Episode 202
Our pilgrim, Dante, may have opened his mouth to answer how he got to where he is in his corporeal body, but he's interrupted by something completely…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Poets Make The Flames Of Lust More Colorful: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 1 - 24
Season 2 Episode 201
The pilgrim, Dante, Virgil, and Statius walk on the narrow ledge between the flames of lust and the drop into the abyss. The penitents in the flames …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Flames And Abyss Of Lust: PURGATORIO, Canto XXV, Lines 109 - 139
Season 2 Episode 200
Dante, Statius, and Virgil arrive on the seventh terrace of Mount Purgatory filled with the flames of lust.
The pilgrim must make his precarious way b…
7 months, 3 weeks ago