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The Shores Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Cantos 1 - 2
The Shores Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Cantos 1 - 2
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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Mar 15, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
As I told you in the previous episode of this podcast, we're taking PURGATORIO in chunks, rather than small bits. Or more like, first chunks, then small bits. And here's our first chunk: cantos 1 - 2 in my English translation.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we begin our exploration of the shores of Purgatory. I'll first read through the first two cantos of the middle canticle from Dante's masterwork, COMEDY.Then I'll raise some initial interpretive questions--although there will be lots more as we break the cantos down into smaller chunks, starting in the next episode.Here are the segments of this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:[01:54] Reading PURGATORIO, cantos 1 - 2.[18:26] Six initial, interpretive questions. One, are we in the same poem as we were in INFERNO?[20:53] Two, who is this solitary old man?[22:13] Three, why all the astrological and astronomical references in these cantos?[23:28] Four, why all the singing in these opening cantos of PURGATORIO?[24:43] Five, who is Casella?[25:43] Six, what does Dante the poet know about angels?
Released:
Mar 15, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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