PURGATORIO, Episode 171. Virgil Offers The First Of Many Classical Misreadings: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 1 - 24
Dante 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 The drama of the pilgrim’s blindness is superseded by Virgil’s curiosity about Statius .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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