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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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year, 1 month 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 …
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month ago
Did Dante Think The Characters In Classical Poems Were Real?
Season 2 Episode 179
Did Dante think that the characters in Virgil's and Statius's poems were real? Did he believe that the characters who changed shape, being, and even …
1 year, 1 month ago
You Are What You Eat . . . And Read: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 130 - 145
Season 2 Episode 178
Virgil and Statius begin to trek around the sixth terrace of Mount Purgatory but are stopped by an upside-down tree . . . that causes more questions …
1 year, 1 month ago
Going In Circles To Go Forward: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 115 - 129
Season 2 Episode 177
Our pilgrim, Virgil, and Statius arrive on the otherwise empty sixth terrace of Mount Purgatory. Virgil seems more hesitant. And our pilgrim, Dante, …
1 year, 1 month ago
Placing And Misplacing Your Classical Ancestors: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 94 - 114
Season 2 Episode 176
At the end of their first conversation, Virgil and Statius reconstruct limbo. They transform it into a neighborhood where all the lost, classical wri…
1 year, 1 month ago