Greeting The Wrathful And Slowly Changing COMEDY Itself: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 25 - 51
Wrapped in the dark, acrid smoke, Dante encounters one of the angry penitents and one of the most seminal figures in COMEDY, here at almost the exact center of the entire poem.Join me, Mark Scarbrough...
14 Aug 202433min
Solving The Knot Of Wrath: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 1 - 24
Dante finds himself in such dark, acrid smoke that he is reminded of the very inky desolations of Inferno. In fact, he has come to the darkest spot in all of COMEDY, the fiftieth canto of Dante's mast...
11 Aug 202423min
Anger In PURGATORIO and INFERNO
In this interpolated episode among those on our slow-walk through Dante's masterpiece, COMEDY, let's discuss the specific sin of anger (or wrath), particularly as it relates to both PURGATORIO (the ca...
7 Aug 202423min
The Third Terrace Of Purgatory Proper: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Line 85, Through Canto XVII, Line 72
We've now come to the third terrace of Purgatory proper, the ledge of wrath (or anger).Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we read through the passages that make up this terrace, starting back at PURGATORIO,...
4 Aug 202420min
Lighten Up Before The Dark Smoke Of Anger: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 115 - 145
Dante comes out of his ecstatic vision only to have Virgil question whether the pilgrim has drunk too much.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for this rare moment of levity after such intense visions. The paci...
31 Jul 202417min
The Answer To Wrath Is Written On Your Face: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 94 - 114
Dante the pilgrim has already had one ecstatic vision as he stepped onto the third terrace of Purgatory proper. Now he has two more in quick succession.We're able then to identify the sin or human fai...
28 Jul 202424min
The First Ecstatic Vision . . . Of COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 85 - 93
Dante and Virgil have stepped onto the third terrace of Purgatory proper and our pilgrim is hit with an ecstatic vision. In fact, the first one in a poem that may itself seem like an ecstatic vision. ...
24 Jul 202423min
Hunger, Light, Love, And The Theology Of Abundance: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 58 - 84
Dante the pilgrim has gotten one answer out of Virgil about the nature of abundance and scarcity in terms of heavenly good . . . but that answer was not apparently enough. So he goes back for more.Joi...
17 Jul 202427min
