PURGATORIO, Episode 229. The Second Coming Of Beatrice: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Cantos XXX - XXXI

Let’s read through the next chunk of PURGATORIO: Cantos XXX and XXXI. In many ways, these cantos are the climax of the first part of COMEDY: Beatrice arrives and is nothing like what we might have expected.

Mark ScarbroughDecember 31, 2025Purgatorio XXX, Purgatorio XXXI, Beatrice, The Garden of Eden, The Earthly Paradise, Lethe, Purgatorio, PurgatoryComment

PURGATORIO, Episode 221. The Abundance Of The Poet's Imagination In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 109 - 133

The lady across the stream in Eden continues her answer to the pilgrim Dante’s questions about the breeze and the water. In so doing, she offers the botany of Eden and our world, an ecology of Eden, and even the hydrolics of the place, layering meaning over meaning until we enter a fully imagined landscape.

Mark ScarbroughDecember 3, 2025Purgatorio XXVIII, Purgatorio, Purgatory, The Garden of Eden, The Earthly Paradise, Lethe, EunoeComment