PURGATORIO, Episode 168. The Audacity Of Statius: PURGATORIO, Canto XXI, Lines 76 - 102
The unknown soul finally names himself: Statius, the epic Roman poet, a major influence on COMEDY, and a full-on shock. How could a pagan Roman poet end up on Mount Purgatory, headed to heaven? And how can this poet find himself face to face with his own poetic inspiration and apparently the bearer of God’s revelation: the damned Virgil.
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