The Rage Comes To Rest (Sort Of): PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 127 - 151
Donate to help keep WALKING WITH DANTE on its path by using this PayPal link here.Dante's invective against political strife reaches its height by turning its rhetoric toward Dante's own experience--a...
8 Okt 202327min
The Poet Dante Finally Loses Control: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 106 - 126
Rage knows no bounds--even in a poem as controlled as Dante's COMEDY. The poet has been offering up an invective about Italian strife and the war-torn landscape that has ruined his home. But in the mi...
4 Okt 202322min
Dante The Pilgrim Versus Dante The Poet
We've danced around the notion of Dante as the pilgrim and Dante as the poet and their competing voices in COMEDY for so many episodes--quite literally, years now. But does this split in Dante hold up...
1 Okt 202323min
You Don't Always Get The Poem You Want: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 76 - 105
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27 Sep 202327min
Sordello, Dante's Second Guide Across The Known Universe: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 49 - 75
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24 Sep 202329min
The Garbled Logic Of A Classical Poet In A Christian Poem: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 25 - 48
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20 Sep 202320min
Winners, Losers, And Beggars: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 1 - 24
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17 Sep 202330min
The Strange Brew Of Love And Disgust: PURGATORIO, Cantos VI - VIII
In this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE, we'll read the three cantos that lead us up to the gate of Purgatory itself.These are tough cantos! It's important to hear them before we break them apart to stu...
13 Aug 202331min
