The second episode on the apocalyptic vision that ends PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII. In this episode, we’ll go over the now-standard reading, popularized by the rationalist, Anglo-American readers of COMEDY. We’ll talk about cracks and rifts in that interpretation. And we’ll discuss ways the vision itself may finally be “uninterpretable.”
Read MoreOur pilgrim, Dante, and the beautiful lady walk on, each on their own side of Lethe. They seem to leave the more open space and reenter the forest when a flash of light overwhelms the pilgrim. It’s the signal for the start of the great apocalyptic parade that will take up more of Canto XXIX. It’s also the catalyst for some very pernicious misogyny.
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