PURGATORIO, Episode 146. Fear, New Thoughts, And Dreams: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 130 - 145

December 15, 2024 by Mark Scarbrough

As the zealous slothful run on, two more come in the rear, biting the penitents with warnings about sloth. After they’re gone, the pilgrim can finally get some rest. He has a new thought—curiously undefined—which leads him into his second dream in PURGATORIO.

PURGATORIO, Episode 117. Hunger, Light, Love, And The Theology Of Abundance: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 58 - 84

July 17, 2024 by Mark Scarbrough

Dante has heard Virgil’s explanation of the good becoming more, the more it’s shared (at least in heaven); yet Dante is not satisfied. So the pilgrim goes back for a second helping in this passage that continues Virgil’s lesson, turning the “good” into love and light, a move that will set us up for the grand revelations in the central cantos of COMEDY.