PURGATORIO, Episode 38. Mobs On The Mountain: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto V

We've reached the end of the first narrative arc of PURGATORIO. Dante the poet brings the first five cantos to a close with a very quiet, almost disturbing decrescendo: a small voice, a woman's voice, reduced the barest details.

Join me as we read through PURGATORIO, Canto V, before we take it apart and start our slow-walk through it, passage by passage. My English translation is not yet available on this website. (It will be in subsequent episodes.) Instead, just sit back and take the canto in before we pull it into so many pieces.

Here are the segments of this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:

[01:20] My English translation of PURGATORIO, Canto V. Again, it's not found on this website. Instead, please just listen for the narrative flow.

[08:38] What initial questions do we have after we've read PURGATORIO, Canto V?