PURGATORIO, Episode 101. Eyes Stitched Shut: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 46 - 72

Dante the pilgrim finally sees the penitents on the second terrace of PURGATORIO. They’re huddled against each other, leaning back against the mountain’s cliff, and clothed in livid haircloth. But they also have their eyelids stitched shut with wire, blinded because of this sin that we have reinterpreted and tamed as jealousy but that entails so much more.

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