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The Daunting Problem Of This Sweet New Style: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 55 - 75
Season 2 Episode 189
Dante the pilgrim has claimed that indeed he is the one who is inspired by love, who writes what love breathes into him and then makes meaning from t…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Dante's Wild Claim About Love's Inspiration: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 34 - 54
Season 2 Episode 188
After Forese Donati has pointed out five of the gluttons on the sixth terrace of Mount Purgatory, one of them, the first mentioned and a poet of the …
9 months ago
Of Eels And Wine: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 16 - 33
Season 2 Episode 187
Forese Donati continues to answer Dante the pilgrim's questions by naming five penitent gluttons surrounding them on the sixth terrace of Mount Purga…
9 months, 1 week ago
Virgil's Silence And A First Glimpse Of Paradise: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 1 - 15
Season 2 Episode 186
PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, is set as a direct continuation from Canto XXIII. The poet Dante cues us to the continuation but there nevertheless are a cou…
9 months, 1 week ago
Renegotiating COMEDY As PURGATORIO Nears Its Climax: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 112 - 133
Season 2 Episode 185
Forese Donati has finished his diatribe about Florentine women and is now ready to hear Dante the pilgrim's story. Who did the pilgrim get here in th…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
From Lofty To Lyrical In The Prophetic Voice: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 91 - 111
Season 2 Episode 184
Having praised his wife, Nella, Forese Donati launches into the prophetic voice, the new "high style" that Dante has developed, a screed with a lyric…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Heroic Nella Donati: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 76 - 90
Season 2 Episode 183
Dante the pilgrim and his rival/friend/fellow poet Forese Donati continue to talk about their concerns: suffering, placement on the mountain, and the…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Pain, Solace, And Being Human: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 49 - 75
Season 2 Episode 182
Having met his poetic rival, Forese Donati, Dante the pilgrim must make sense of the clear and present pain he sees in friend's face.
This passage is …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Gluttons For Poetry: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 28 - 48
Season 2 Episode 181
Dante now walks with the skeletal gluttons who have God's writing on their faces.
Along the way, there are increasingly complex and almost gaming lite…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Starved For Affection: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 1 - 27
Season 2 Episode 180
Our pilgrim must move beyond the mystical tree on the sixth terrace of Mount Purgatory. So he sets off behind Virgil and Statius, only to overtaken b…
10 months ago