The Best World Is A World With Two Suns: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 97 - 129
Marco of Lombardy, the angry penitent, continues his diagnosis of the world's problems. It's got only one sun, not two, as Rome had. And that one sun, the papacy, is not kosher. In fact, perhaps canno...
28 Aug 202434min
The Shocking News That The Soul Is A Little Girl: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 85 - 96
Marco of Lombardy continues his discourse on free will, deep in the pitch-black smoke of the third terrace of Purgatory where the angry penitents confront their sin.His discussion takes a wild turn: a...
25 Aug 202428min
The Cause Is In You: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 64 - 84
Dante the pilgrim has asked the angry Marco of Lombardy the cause of the world's ills. Marco responds with both exasperation and affection before turning to the root of the matter: The cause is in all...
21 Aug 202433min
How Can You Justify The Ways Of God (Or At Least, The Stars): PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 52 - 63
Dante's on the verge of exploding with doubt. Marco of Lombardy's snark about the loss of valor in the bows of this world has done little more than leave the pilgrim in a theological puzzle: How did t...
18 Aug 202419min
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
