Piccarda Donati finally comes around to answering the question of who she is. She tells her personal story in four stanzas, ending it with a violent and elliptical tercet that connects her to two other women in COMEDY: Francesca in INFERNO and Pia in PURGATORIO.
Read MoreDante 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.
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