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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…
10 months, 2 weeks 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…
10 months, 2 weeks 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…
10 months, 3 weeks 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…
10 months, 3 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 …
11 months 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…
11 months ago
The Corporeal Afterlife Of The Immaterial Soul: PURGATORIO, Canto XXV, Lines 79 - 108
Season 2 Episode 199
Statius concludes his discourse on embryology by finally answering the pilgrim Dante's question about how souls can take on material attributes in th…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Breath Of Life, The Breath Of Poetry: PURGATORIO, Canto XXV, Lines 52 - 78
Season 2 Episode 198
Statius goes on to the second part of his discussion of human embryology by following the fetus through its developmental phases until it finally has…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Natural Process Of Life: PURGATORIO, Canto XXV, Lines 34 - 51
Season 2 Episode 197
Dante the pilgrim has asked the pressing question of how immaterial souls can take on material attributes like leanness.
To answer that, Virgil has of…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Virgil's Inadequacy On Full Display: PURGATORIO, Canto XXV, Lines 22 - 33
Season 2 Episode 196
Our pilgrim, Dante, has asked a very pressing question: How can shades grow thin? How does the immaterial act like the material in the afterlife?
Virg…
11 months, 2 weeks ago