The climax of Virgil’s character in COMEDY: He becomes the guide he should have always been, the father who can lead his child out into the wide universe and trust his pupil to make his own decisions. It’s a poignant and fitting moment for Virgil who our poet, Dante, has brought to a successful and dramatic apex moment.
Read MoreOur pilgrim, Dante, has lain down on a step of the final staircase of Mount Purgatory, with Statius just below him and Virgil just above him. As he gazes at the bright and large stars, he suddenly falls asleep and has this third dream in PURGATORIO, this one about Leah (and her sister Rachel) in a garden like Eden, gentle and calm compared to his other dreams on the mountain.
Read MoreOur pilgrim Dante, Virgil, and Statius pass on along the sixth terrace of Mount Purgatory and come to a tree that's a seedling from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden. It shakes them up a bit and offers a classical and a Biblical example of the problems with gluttony.
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