PURGATORIO, Episode 155. The Most Bitter Pain Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 115 - 124

Pope Adrian V answers the pilgrim Dante’s second question: What is going on here on the fifth terrace of Purgatory? In so doing, the pope offers one of the most misunderstood lines of PURGATORIO and also ties the punishment here back to the subject of falconry.

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