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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The First Soul in Paradise, Piccarda Donati: PARADISO, Canto III, Lines 34 - 57

Dante meets his first soul in Paradise, the former nun Piccarda Donati. We’ve already encountered her in COMEDY through her brother, Forese, among the gluttons on Mount Purgatory. And she is also a refraction of an infamous figure, Francesca in INFERNO V. Piccarda’s speech is like the moon itself: mottled with dark and light.

Paradiso Cantos I - VIIMark ScarbroughSeptember 13, 2026Piccarda, The moon, free will, vows, moon spotsComment