As we pass Arnaut Daniel, the final penitent soul on Mount Purgatory, let’s look back over the poets we’ve met, the ways love has expressed itself in poetry, the problems with Francesca back in INFERNO as seen from this vantage point, and the pressing question of violence and suffering in COMEDY.
Read MoreDante the pilgrim begins his climb to the sixth terrace of Mount Purgatory blinded and behind his two guides, Virgil and Statius. The drama of the pilgrim’s blindness is superseded by Virgil’s curiosity about Statius . . . complete with Virgil’s own misquotation of Francesca from INFERNO, Canto V.
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