Here are the episodes for the opening cantos of PARADISO. The podcast is currently into Canto III. Because of the way my website is coded, the episodes appear in reverse order. Sorry about that. Scroll through the list to find earlier (or the earliest) episode.

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Piccarda Donati's Apotheosis of the Will: PARADISO, Canto III, Lines 58 - 87

Piccarda Donati has confessed her more humble position in the rotating heavens. Dante then wants to know why she doesn’t want more. Her answer leads her to the larger workings of the universe and an apotheosis of the will, as hers dissolves into the larger will that guides the universe.

Paradiso Cantos I - VIIMark ScarbroughSeptember 16, 2026Piccarda Donati, The moon, the will, FrancescaComment