PURGATORIO, Episode 165. Virgil's Classical Schooling And Insistence: PURGATORIO, Canto XXI, Lines 22 - 39
The unknown shades wants to know how two escapees from hell have made their way up Mount Purgatory. Virgil has to explain that the pilgrim Dante is still alive . . . and he does so with a knot of classical imagery before pressing on to the question of “why” the mountain just shook and all the souls shouted in one voice.
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