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Final Thoughts On PURGATORIO
The Seven Addresses To The Reader In PURGATORIO
Dante's Theories Of Writing Across INFERNO and PURGATORIO
All The Hopeful Ambiguity Of The Second Canticle: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 124 - 145
At Long Last, Matelda: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 103 - 123
Images, Schools, Obscurities, And The Promise Of Clarity: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 79 - 102
In Which Pilgrimage Becomes Crusade: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 61 - 78
Take Notes, Dante: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 46 - 60
Beatrice And Her Cryptic "Five Hundred Ten And Five": PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 25 - 45
Walking With Beatrice In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 24
Apocalypse Even In Eden, Part Two: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 109 - 160
Apocalypse Even In Eden, Part One: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 109 - 160
A Brief Introduction To Women In The High Middle Ages
Beatrice, Changed; Dante, Panicked; And The Reader, De-centered: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 70 - 108
Asleep In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 49 - 69
Games Of Interpretation In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 28 - 48
Sound The Retreat In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXII, Lines 1 - 27
A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Cantos XXXII - XXXIII
The Revelation Of Beatrice's Hidden, Second Beauty: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXI, Lines 127 - 145
Beatrice And The Griffin: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXI, Lines 112 - 126
Washed Clean In Lethe: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXI, Lines 91 - 111
Dante Faints For The Third Time In COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXI, Lines 64 - 90
Absence Becomes Elevated, High-Style Presence: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXI, Lines 49 - 63
At Long Last, Dante's Confession: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXI, Lines 22 - 48
The Poet Loses His Words: PURGATORIO, Canto XXXI, Lines 1 - 21
Finding The Fit For Your Talent: PURGATORIO, Canto XXX, Lines 127 - 145
When You Don't Get The Redemption You Want: PURGATORIO, Canto XXX, Lines 100 - 126
The Ice Finally Melts: PURGATORIO, Canto XXX, Lines 79 - 99
The Admiral Comes Into Her Ship: PURGATORIO, Canto XXX, Lines 55 - 78
Farewell, Virgil: PURGATORIO, Canto XXX, Lines 22 - 54
Brides, Grooms, And Virgil: PURGATORIO, Canto XXX, Lines 1 - 21
The Second Coming Of Beatrice: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Cantos XXX - XXXI
The Conclusion (For Now) Of The Timeless Parade Of Revelation: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIX, Lines 121 - 154
The Shocking Emptiness Of Revelation: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIX, Lines 106 - 120
No Time For Poetry: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIX, Lines 88 - 105
The Parade Of Revelation: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIX, Lines 58 - 87
That Which Walks In The Forest: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIX, Lines 31 - 57
Let The Apocalypse Roll: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIX, Lines 1 - 30
The Essential Fulcrum Of COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 134 - 148
The Abundance Of The Poet's Imagination In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 109 - 133
The Breeze Of The Poem's Faith: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 85 - 108
The Many Contraditions In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 67 - 84
The Darkening Poetry Around The Solitary Lady: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 43 - 66
Of Brooks, Solitary Ladies, and Layered Meanings: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 22 - 42
Our Pilgrim Let Loose (Again) In A Dark Wood: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 1 - 21
The Top Of The Mount (Part One): A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, CANTOS XXVIII - XXIX
The Climax Of Virgil In COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 124 - 142
To Refocus Virgil And COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 109 - 123
The Third And Final Dream On Mount Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 91 - 108
The Flames Don't Burn Up Irony: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 49 - 90
Of Fraud, Flames, And Love: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 19 - 48
The Whole World Is On Fire: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 1 - 18
Final Thoughts About Poetry, Lust, And Meaning On The Last Terrace Of Mount Purgatory
French Poetry Doesn't Have To Condemn You: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 136 - 148
Sweet Becomes Truthful Becomes Poetic: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 115 - 135
The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 94 - 114
Queenly Embeasting: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 67 - 93
The Pilgrim Writes His Way Into Revelation: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 49 - 66
The Episode In Which My Voice Breaks: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 25 - 48
Poets Make The Flames Of Lust More Colorful: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVI, Lines 1 - 24
The Flames And Abyss Of Lust: PURGATORIO, Canto XXV, Lines 109 - 139
The Corporeal Afterlife Of The Immaterial Soul: PURGATORIO, Canto XXV, Lines 79 - 108
The Breath Of Life, The Breath Of Poetry: PURGATORIO, Canto XXV, Lines 52 - 78
The Natural Process Of Life: PURGATORIO, Canto XXV, Lines 34 - 51
Virgil's Inadequacy On Full Display: PURGATORIO, Canto XXV, Lines 22 - 33
Hesitancy Is The Deadly Sin Of Art: PURGATORIO, Canto XXV, Lines 1 - 21
A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Cantos XXV - XXVII
The Compensations Of Contemplation: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 130 - 154
Of Mythic Trees, Human Desire, And Ceremonial Solace: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 100 - 129
A Look Back Over The Entire Conversation With Forese Donati: PURGATORIO Canto XXIII, Line 40, to Canto XXIV, Line 99
Forese Donati's Parting Apocalypse: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 76 - 99
The Daunting Problem Of This Sweet New Style: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 55 - 75
Dante's Wild Claim About Love's Inspiration: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 34 - 54
Of Eels And Wine: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 16 - 33
Virgil's Silence And A First Glimpse Of Paradise: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 1 - 15
Renegotiating COMEDY As PURGATORIO Nears Its Climax: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 112 - 133
From Lofty To Lyrical In The Prophetic Voice: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 91 - 111
The Heroic Nella Donati: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 76 - 90
Pain, Solace, And Being Human: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 49 - 75
Gluttons For Poetry: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 28 - 48
Starved For Affection: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIII, Lines 1 - 27
Did Dante Think The Characters In Classical Poems Were Real?
You Are What You Eat . . . And Read: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 130 - 145
Going In Circles To Go Forward: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 115 - 129
Placing And Misplacing Your Classical Ancestors: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 94 - 114
Statius, The Closeted Christian: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 76 - 93
Virgil, The Damned Christian Missionary: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 55 - 74
An Interpolated Episode: Dante and Irony
The Path To God Is Lined With Misquoted, Misinterpreted Texts: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 25 - 54
Virgil Offers Up The First Of Many Misread Texts: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 1 - 24
A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Cantos XXII - XXIV
Caught Between Two Poets: PURGATORIO, Canto XXI, Lines 103 - 136
The Audacity Of Statius: PURGATORIO, Canto XXI, Lines 76 - 102
The (Maybe?) Supremacy Of The Will: PURGATORIO, Canto XXI, Lines 58 - 75
The Place Beyond Accidental Change: PURGATORIO, Canto XXI, Lines 40 - 57
Virgil's Classical Schooling And (Irreverent?) Insistence: PURGATORIO, Canto XXI, Lines 22 - 39
A Shade Appears: PURGATORIO, Canto XXI, Lines 1 - 21
Fear And Trembling On The Mountain: PURGATORIO, Canto XX, Lines 124 - 151
Hugh Capet's Antiphon: PURGATORIO, Canto XX, Lines 97 - 123
When The French Monarchy Makes Even The Papacy Look Good: PURGATORIO, Canto XX, Lines 82 - 96
The Madness Of Hugh Capet's Descendants: PURGATORIO, Canto XX, Lines 61 - 81
Hugh Capet In Purgatory . . . Or Maybe Not: PURGATORIO, Canto XX, Lines 40 - 60
Poverty As Reward And Compensation: PURGATORIO, Canto XX, Lines 16 - 39
What The Pilgrim Can Do And What A Redeemer Must Do: PURGATORIO, Canto XX, Lines 1 - 15
The Loneliness Of Pope Adrian V: PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 127 - 145
The Most Bitter Pain Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 115 - 124
A Pope In Purgatory For (Surprise!) Avarice: PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 91 - 114
Stuck To The Ground (Sometimes): PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 70 - 90
Look To The Heavens: PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 52 - 69
Expecting Those Ladies Of Consolation: PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 34 - 51
Let's Compare The First Two Dreams In PURGATORIO
The Siren, The Lady, And Virgil: PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 16 - 33
Chilly Dreams Before The Fifth Terrace Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 1- 15
Greedy Beasts That Refuse The Lure: A Read-Through Of The Fifth Terrace Of PURGATORIO, Cantos XIX - XXI
Fear, New Thoughts, And Dreams: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 130 - 145
Speaking Truth To Power: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 97 - 129
The Sleepy Can Get Run Over: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 76 - 96
Virgil, Reason, Love, And The Roots Of Modern Ethics: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 49 - 75
Questions Of Pregnancy And Blame: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 40 - 48
The Cognitive, Rational Basis Of Love: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 19 - 39
Excuse Me, Virgil, I Didn't Quite Get That: PURGATORIO, Canto XVIII, Lines 1 - 18
A (Sort Of) Short Summary Of PURGATORIO, Cantos I - XVII
Love Escapes Virgil: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 127 - 139
Love Maps Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 106 - 126
Love Is The Seed: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 91 - 105
Drowsy Yet Vigilant, Slothful Yet Expectant: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 73 - 90
The Fourth Terrace Of Purgatory Proper: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Line 73, to Canto XVIII, Line 145
All The Light Ends With The Stars: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 40 - 72
Three Ecstatic Visions And Dante's Warning (To Himself?) About Anger: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 19 - 39
The Light Of The Imagination: PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 1 - 18
Marco Of Lombardy Redux: Questions From PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 46 - 145
The Chatty Conclusion Of The Angry Marco's Discourse: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 130 - 145
The Best World Is A World With Two Suns: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 97 - 129
The Shocking News That The Soul Is A Little Girl: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 85 - 96
The Cause Is In You: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 64 - 84
How Can You Justify The Ways Of God (Or At Least, The Stars): PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 52 - 63
Greeting The Wrathful And Slowly Changing COMEDY Itself: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 25 - 51
Solving The Knot Of Wrath: PURGATORIO, Canto XVI, Lines 1 - 24
Anger In PURGATORIO and INFERNO
The Third Terrace Of Purgatory Proper: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Line 85, Through Canto XVII, Line 72
Lighten Up Before The Dark Smoke Of Anger: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 115 - 145
The Answer To Wrath Is Written On Your Face: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 94 - 114
The First Ecstatic Vision . . . Of COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 85 - 93
Hunger, Light, Love, And The Theology Of Abundance: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 58 - 84
Scarcity, Abundance, And The Poetics Between The Terraces: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 34 - 57
Redefining The Terms Of What Seems To Be: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 25 - 33
Playing Around With The Sun: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, Lines 1 - 24
Virgil Inscribes Circularity Into Linearity: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 142 - 151
Two More Voices On The Winds Of Envy: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 127 - 141
Oh, For The Glory Days (That Maybe Never Were): PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 97 - 126
Now You Know Who We Are: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 73 - 96
The Descent Of The Arno Into Metaphoric Space: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 43 - 72
The Many Textures Of Envy: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 22 - 42
Be Careful Of The Company You Keep: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 1 - 21
Sapía, Part Four--The Coda: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 85 - 104
Sapía, Part Three—Rhetorical Games Reveal Both The Penitent And The Pilgrim: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 133 - 154
Sapía, Part Two—Blasphemy Among The Penitents Of Envy: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 112 - 132
Sapía, Part One—The Pilgrim Gets More (And Less!) Than He Bargained For: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 94 - 111
Flattery Will Get You Irony: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 73 - 93
Eyes Stitched Shut: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 46 - 72
The Voices Of Love And Alienation: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 22 - 45
The Easy Climb Into Complex Meaning: PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Lines 1 - 21
Dante, Aquinas, Aristotle, And The Fences Of Truth
The Second Terrace Of Purgatory: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto XIII, Line 1, though Canto XV, Line 84
Erasing God's Writing Even If Virgil Smiles: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 118 - 139
Narrow Stairs, Contorted Similes, And The On-Going Poetry Of Hell: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 100 - 117
The Climb Out Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 73 - 99
Storytelling, Moral Allegory, And The Human Paradox: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 64 - 72
More Questions Than Answers About The Reliefs In The Road Bed Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 22 - 63
Walking On Pride, Part Three: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 49 - 60
Walking On Pride, Part Two: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 37 - 48
Walking On Pride, Part One: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 25 - 36
Art, Realism, And Dante's Sheer Audacity: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, lines 13 - 24
Dante's Pride Both Lanced And Swelling: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 1 - 12
A Bad Boy Makes Good On The Terrace Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 109 - 139
Oderisi Redux: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 73 - 108
Proud Oderisi Confronts The Vagaries Of Artistic Fame: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 73 - 108
Proud Omberto, Humbled . . . Or Humbled Omberto, Still Proud: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 46 - 72
Disorienting The Reader On The Terrace Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 25 - 45
Dante Rewrites The Foundational Prayer Of Christianity: PURGATORIO, Canto XI, Lines 1 - 24
When Art Envisions What Is: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 112 - 139
A Seam In The Narrative Sewn With Virgil's Murmurs: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 94 -111
The Moral Crux Of Justice And Compassion In The Last Intaglio: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 70 - 93
Realism And Its Discontents: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 46 - 69
Art, Creativity, And The False Promise Of The New: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 28 - 45
The Post-Gate Letdown: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 1 - 27
The First Terrace Of Purgatory Proper: A Read-Through of PURGATORIO, Cantos X - XII
Screeching And Singing Into Purgatory Proper: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 130 - 145
Of Keys, Gates, And Letters On The Forehead: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 106 - 129
Three Steps Up To The Gate And Into An Interpretive Quagmire: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 94 - 105
The Forbidding Angel At The Gate: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 79 - 93
Brace Yourself For The Gate Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 64 - 78
Lucy, Virgil, The Christian Reality, The Classical Texture: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 43 - 63
A Dream Of Classical Sex And Sorrows: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 13 - 42
Asleep In A Messy Bed Of Classical Imagery: PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 1 - 12
The Gate Of Purgatory: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto IX
The Generosity That Ends The Cantos Of Ante-Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 109 - 139
The Sun Sets On The Classical Landscape: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 85 - 108
Misogyny Rears Its Head: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 64 - 84
I Saw Them, They Saw Me, So The Journey Is Real: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 46 - 63
The First Angels Descend From Heaven: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 19 - 45
Ecstatic While Longing For Home: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 1 - 18
The Kings Who Dodged What They Should Have Done, Part Two: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 82 - 136
The Kings Who Dodged What They Should Have Done, Part One: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 82 - 136
Problems In The Poetry Of The Elysian Fields: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 64 - 81
Virgil, Sordello, And The Limits Of The Will: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 37 - 63
Virgil Redefines Limbo And The Journey Across The Known Universe: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 16 - 36
Virgil Returns To Center Stage: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 1 - 15
The Rage Comes To Rest (Sort Of): PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 127 - 151
The Poet Dante Finally Loses Control: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 106 - 126
Dante The Pilgrim Versus Dante The Poet
You Don't Always Get The Poem You Want: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 76 - 105
Sordello, Dante's Second Guide Across The Known Universe: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 49 - 75
The Garbled Logic Of A Classical Poet In A Christian Poem: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 25 - 48
Winners, Losers, And Beggars: PURGATORIO, Canto VI, Lines 1 - 24
The Strange Brew Of Love And Disgust: PURGATORIO, Cantos VI - VIII
"Che Son La Pia": PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 130 - 136
The Struggle For A Son's Soul: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 85 - 129
The Strangely Beautiful And Poetic Death Of Jacopo Del Cassero: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 64 - 84
In A Rush For Peace: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 37 - 63
The Prisoners Of Hope: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 22 - 36
Distractions And The Demands Of Writing About Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 1 - 21
Mobs On The Mountain: A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Canto V
Belacqua Redux: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 97 - 139
Belacqua, The King Of Misdirection Through Centuries Of Reading Dante's COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 115 - 139
When The Going Gets Tough, Some People Just Sit Down: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 97 -114
Astronomy = Geography = Morality: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 76 - 96
A Geocentric Rest Stop: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 52 - 75
The Way Up Is Always Hard: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 19 - 51
The First "Scientific" Disquisition Is A Grand Misdirection: PURGATORIO, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 18
The Sad (And Fictional) Story Of Manfred's Corpse: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 121 - 145
The First Great Penitent Of Purgatory, Manfred: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 103 - 120
Of Flocks, Pilgrims, And Living In The “What Is": PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 79 - 102
Virgil, The Flattering, Witty Sage: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 67 - 78
The Chaos Of Virgil, The Pilgrim Dante, Reason, And Revelation: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 46 - 66
Virgil's Bitter Distress: Purgatorio, Canto III, Lines 22 - 45
Your Body, Your Alienation: Purgatorio, Canto III, Lines 10 - 21
Virgil, The Failure . . . Maybe: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 1 - 9
The Initial Climb: PURGATORIO, Cantos 3 - 4
Part Two Of "What Is Purgatory?"
Comparing PURGATORIO I & II With Each Other And With INFERNO I & II
Cato's Back--Clearly Mad But A Bit Baffling As Well: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 118 - 133
Refusing Love And Being Human: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 106 - 117
Casella, We Love You But Hardly Know You: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 88 - 105
Spooky Hugs: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 76 - 87
Of Pilgrims, Pilgrimages, And Wonder: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 52 - 75
Two Ways Of Being Dead: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 43 -51
The First Angel Arrives In Purgatory With Lots Of Questions In Tow: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 25 - 42
Being All Red Just When You're Supposed To Be All White: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 13 - 24
Sunrise With Nowhere To Go: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 1 - 12
Part One Of "What Is Purgatory?"
Lost And Found In Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 112 - 136
Just Tell Your Story And Stay Pliant: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 85 - 111
Cato, Marcia, And The Problems They Cause: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 49 - 84 (Part Two)
Virgil Out Of His Depths--Or Maybe Out Of Dante's: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 49 - 84 (Part One)
A Lone Old Man Who Disrupts COMEDY And Changes The Rules Of The Afterlife: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 28 - 48
Laughter And Loss, The Essence Of Being Human: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 13 - 27
Of A Poet, His Hubris, And His Doubts: PURGATORIO, Canto I, Lines 1 - 12
The Shores Of Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Cantos 1 - 2
An Introduction To PURGATORIO
What We Missed And How You Can Further Your Own Slow-Walk Across INFERNO
INFERNO: Final Thoughts Without Firm Conclusions
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 32 - 34
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 29 - 31
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 26 - 28
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 24 - 25
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 21 - 23
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 18 - 20
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 14 - 17
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 11 - 13
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 8 - 10
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 4 - 7
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 1 - 3
Let's Walk Out To See The Stars: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 127 - 139
Despite All The Ribbing And Drubbing, Virgil Remains Virgil To The End: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 94 - 126
More About Up, Down, And Spin: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 70 - 93
The Way Down Is The Way Up: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 70 - 93
Noshing On The Worst Sinners In Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 46 - 69
A Brief History Of Satan (Up Until Dante's Vision)
The Three Faces Of Interpretation . . . Or Satan: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 28 - 45
An Overview Of The Seven Direct Addresses To The Reader In INFERNO
Behold Satan: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 1 - 27
The Zombie Apocalypse: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 118 - 157
Virgil Returns For No Reason, Dante The Poet Slips, And More Fun On The Ice Sheet Of Cocytus: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 91 - 117
Of Narcissists, Purgatory, Rage, Ugolino, And Our Poet Dante: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 90
Count Ugolino As A Perversion And Affirmation Of The New Testament: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 78
Placing Count Ugolino Inside The Scope Of Dante's Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 78
Introducing The Last Great Sinner Of Hell, Count Ugolino: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 1 - 78
Cannibalism And Polyphony: INFERNO, Canto XXXII, Lines 124 - 139
Snitching To The Devil: INFERNO, Canto XXXII, Lines 103 - 123
A Treacherous Poet On A Treacherous Ice Sheet: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 70 - 102
An Overview Of The Similes (So Far) In Dante's COMEDY
They Make Me So Mad That I Could Just Kill My Family: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 40 - 69
Disembodied Voices In The Pastoral Landscape Of An Ice Sheet: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 16 - 39
When Hell Gets So Bad You Despair Of Your Own Craft: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 1 - 15
Welcome To The Foundations Of The Universe: Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 130 - 145
Flattering Your Way To The Center Of The Earth: INFERNO, Canto XXXI, Lines 112 - 129
Three Big Bad Giants With Not Much At Stake Except The Nature Of Comedy Itself: Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 82 - 111
Nimrod, A Mighty Hunter, A Mighty Problem: INFERNO, Canto XXXI, Lines 46 - 81
Towers? No, Giants! No, Towers! Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 28 - 45
The Liminal Space Between The Eighth And Ninth Circles Of Hell: Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 7 - 27
Our Farewell To Fraud With A Host Of (Maybe Unanswered) Questions: INFERNO, Cantos XVIII, Line 1, through XXXI, Line 6
An Overview Of Fraud, The Eighth Circle Of INFERNO
A Review And Overview Of Fraud's Tenth Evil Pouch: Inferno, Canto XXIX, Line 1, through Canto XXXI, Line 6
The End Of Fraud—That Is, The Self In The Self Wishing The Self Were In The Self: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Line 130, through Canto XXXI, Line 6
The Many Pleasures Of Insults: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Lines 104 - 129
The Bottom Of Hell, The Beginnings Of Western Civilization: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Lines 91 - 103
Behold The New Modern Man, Master Adam: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Lines 46 - 90
Watch Out For Those Impersonators: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Lines 34 - 45
Contagion, Fraud, And The Fall Of Civilizations: INFERNO, Canto XXX, Lines 1 - 33
Gossip About The Fools Of This World Is About As Human As It Gets: INFERNO, Canto XXIX, Lines 124 - 139
Laughter Is The Best Medicine, Even In Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXIX, Lines 109 - 123
How To Hold Onto Your Humanity, Even In Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXIX, Lines 73 - 108
A Medieval Hospital Of Horrors: INFERNO, Canto XXIX, Lines 37 - 72
You Can Solve Your Family's Vendetta Even In Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXIX, Lines 1 - 36
Bertran de Born, The Rationale For Inferno, & The Dangers Of Poetry: INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 112 - 142
Of The Florentine Civil War, The Bloody Aftermath, And Its Child, Rage: INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 103 - 111
Of The Roman Civil War, Idealism, And Its Child, Ambivalence: Inferno, Canto XXVIII, Lines 91 - 102
The Wonder Of Historical Obscurity: Inferno, Canto XXVIII, Lines 64 - 90
The Most Shocking Line In The Canticle Of Pain: Inferno, Canto XXVIII, Lines 46 - 63
Dante, Muhammad, The Comedy, and Islam: Inferno, Canto XXVIII, Lines 22 - 45
The Body In Pain Is The Wreckage Of Empire: INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 1 - 21
A Comparision And Contrast Between Ulysses And Guido Da Montefeltro: Inferno, Cantos XXVI And XXVII
The Demonic Struggle For Guido's Embittered Soul: Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 112 - 136
Guido da Montefeltro's Take On His Own Life ("I Didn't Do Anything Wrong"): Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 58 - 111
An Interview And Reading Of Inferno, Canto XXVIII, Lines 58 - 129 With J. Simon Harris And His New Translation Of Inferno
Tiptoeing Around The Tyrants Of Romagna: Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 31 - 57
Beware Of Classical Figures, Modern Politicians, And Maybe Poets: Inferno, Canto XXVII, Lines 1 - 30
The Case For Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 85 - 142
The Case Against Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 85 - 142
The Glorious Monologue Of The Damned Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 85 - 142
It's All Greek To Dante: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 64 - 84
The Fifth Great Sinner Of Hell, Ulysses: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 49 - 63
Fireflies, Elijah, And Messy Metaphors: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 25 - 48
Poetic Theory In The Crack Between Two Evil Pouches: Inferno, Canto XXVI, Lines 13 - 24
Take Heart, Fellow Walkers!
More Questions Than Answers: An Overview Of The Metamorphosizing Thieves And The Seventh Of Fraud's Malebolge
The Shifty Thieves, The Certain Judgment, The Uncertain Poet: Inferno, Canto XXV, Line 142 - Canto XXVI, Line 12
Morphing Into Your Own Father: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 79 - 141 (Part Two)
Identity Theft In The Middle Ages: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 79 - 141 (Part One)
Turning The Beast With Two Backs Into Poetry: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 34 - 78 (Part Two)
The Beast With Two Backs--Or, Two Things And Nothing: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 34 - 78 (Part One)
Cacus, A Centaur Like None Other, Not Even In Classical Literature: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 17 -33
Revenge Is Ever So Sweet: Inferno, Canto XXV, Lines 1 - 16
The Bad Boys Get The Best Prophecies: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 121 - 151
Snakebit: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 97 - 120
A Swarm Of Snakes And Literary Texts: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 79 - 96
Get Me Closer To That Unintelligible Stuff: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 61 - 78
Virgil's Reprimand, The Pilgrim's Hypocrisy, The Poet's Games: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 46 - 60
The Struggle Is Real: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 22 - 45
The Stars, The Seasons, A Peasant, And Dante: Inferno, Canto XXIV, Lines 1 - 21
Reading The Comedy Without Believing The Comedy
Virgil Humiliated, Virgil Adored: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 127 - 148
Virgil Gawks: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 109 - 126
Welcome To The Synod Of The Hypocrites: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 82 - 108
The Lead Weight Of Hypocrisy: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 58 - 81
A Review And Reading Of The Entire Fifth Evil Pouch Of Fraud: Inferno, Canto XXI, Line 1 - Canto XXIII, Line 57
What You Read Determines What You See: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 4 - 57
Grifters 1, Demons 0: Inferno, Canto XXII, Line 118 - Canto XXIII, Line 3
The Game Is On: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 94 - 117
Naming Names Among The Grifters: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 76 - 93
The Demons Take Their Pound Of Flesh: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 40 - 75
Strolling Down The Avenue With The Demons: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 13 - 39
Mile-High Poetics In The Service Of Rank Vulgarity: Inferno, Canto XXI, Line 127 - Canto XXII, Line 12
Bring On The Demons: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 103 - 126
All About Dante And Demons
High Virgil, Low Demons, And The Poor Pilgrim Dante: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 64 - 102
Working Together To Make A Mess: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 46 - 63
Virgil To The Rescue, A Demon On The Run: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 22 - 45
Metaphors, Tautologies, And Pitch: Inferno, Canto XXI, Lines 1 - 21
Breaking Every Text, Even Your Own: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 100 - 130
Virgil And His Fraudulent Poem The Aeneid: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 52 - 99
For A Guy So Hard On Dante, Virgil Sure Doesn't Know His Classical Sources: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 25 - 51
Poets, The Biggest Fraudsters Of All: Inferno, Canto XX, Lines 1 - 24
A Look Back At The Structure, Beauty, And Engineering Of Inferno, Canto XIX
Out Of Rage And Into Virgil's Arms: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 118 - 133
The Rant To End All Rants (Also, The World): Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 88 - 117
Just When You Think You Have Comedy Figured Out, It Breaks You: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 64 - 87
Popes In Hell: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 46 - 63
Let's Go Down Into The Third Evil Pouch: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 31 - 45
Everybody Gets A Chance To Break The Church: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 13 - 30
Of Prophets, Poets, And Pilgims: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 1 - 12
Flattery And Feces, Together At Last: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 115 - 134
The Moldiest, Muckiest, And Grossest Bits Of Inferno (So Far): Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 100 - 114
The Fine Art Of Seduction Can Land You In Hell: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 67 - 99
Pimps, Fraud, And Metamorphosis: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 40 - 66
Our First Glimpse Of Old-School Demons: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 22 - 39
Welcome To The Eighth Circle Of Hell: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 1 - 21
A Look Back Over The Seventh Circle Of Hell In Dante's COMEDY
Flying By The Seat Of Your Pants (Also, Geryon): Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 100 - 134
Buck Up, It's Geryon (And Modern Narrative Techniques): Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 79 - 99
The Poetics Of Color And Usury: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 46 - 78
Poet And Pilgrim, Walking Alone Along The Cliff: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 28 - 45
Behold The Beast Of Fraud And Poetic Technique: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 1 - 27
Laying My Cards On The Table: How I Read Dante's Comedy
Swearing The Truth About The Beast Of Fraud: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 124 - 136
Cords, Leopards, Medieval Poets, And Medieval Pilgrims, All Straightened Out By Classical Poetry: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 106 - 123
Tumbling Over A Simile About A Waterfall: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 91 - 105
Civic Unity, Truth-Telling, And (Not) Making A Difference In Hell: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 79 - 90
Stopping The Mouth Of History With The Words Of A Prophet: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 64 - 78
The Answer To Dashed Hopes Is Far Harder Than Anger: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 46 - 63
When History Speaks, It Doesn't Always Tell The Truth: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 28 - 45
Brunetto Is Gone But Not Forgotten On The Burning Sands: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 1 - 27
An Interview with Kristen Hook, A Dantista Writing Her Dissertation On Inferno, Canto X
Are These Really The Homosexuals Punished In Inferno, Canto XV?
Gossip, Ambivalence, And The Strangeness of Virgil's Presence: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 100 - 124
A Pilgrim Walking Across Hell? Not Really. More Like A Writer: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 79 - 99
Unanswered Questions and Unasked-For Prophecies: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 46 - 78
The Fourth Great Sinner Of Hell, Brunetto Latini: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 25 - 45
The Long View Across The Burning Sands: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 1 - 24
An Interview with the poet and novelist J. Simon Harris, a translator of Dante's INFERNO
Exploring A Coda To A Canto And Cleaning Up The Canto As A Whole: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 121 - 142
The Old Man Of Crete PART TWO--Sewing The Canto Back Together: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 94 - 120
The Old Man Of Crete PART ONE--A Statue Rises From Four Other Texts: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 94 - 120
Dante Calmly Tells The Tale And Virgil Makes A Wild Claim: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 76 - 93
Blaspheming Against Jove Smack In The Middle Of A Christian Poem: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 43 - 78
It's Snowing Fire And You're Naked: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 19 - 42
Welcome To The Arid Plains Of The Blasphemers: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 1 - 18
Further Questions About Inferno, Canto XIII
One Last Suicide, One Last Irony, One Last Intertextuality: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 127 - 151
The Limits Of Credulity In A Poem About The Afterlife: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 109 - 126
Sorrows And Windows For Sorrow: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 79 - 108
The Third Great Sinner of Hell, Pier delle Vigne: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 46 - 78
Maybe You Can't Trust Those Old Roman Poets: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 1 - 45
Getting Ready For Canto XIII Of Dante's Inferno
At Long Last, The Violent Appear: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 103 - 139
Astride a Centaur: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 76 - 102
The Centaurs--A Rider Without A Horse Or A Horse Without A Rider: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 49 - 75
More On Virgil's Life Outside Of Comedy: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 31 - 48
This Way To The Violent, Down The Slope, Past The Minotaur: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 1 - 30
Too Many Footnotes And Not Enough Time To Reflect
Usury + Violence = A Theory Of Art: Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 91 - 114
Virgil, Your Map Of Hell Needs A Little Work: Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 67 - 90
The Greatest Sin Isn't Pride--It's Fraud: Inferno, Canto XI, Lines 52 - 66
The Sins Of Violence Explained (Sort Of): INFERNO, Canto XI, Lines 28 - 51
Mapping the Uncharted at the Beginning of the Age of Discovery: INFERNO, Canto XI, Lines 16 - 27
The Dazzle of Beatrice, The Stench Of Hell: INFERNO, Canto X, Line 121b, through Canto XI, Lines 15
Where Is My Son? A Thematic And Structural Overview Of INFERNO, Canto X
Repenting To A Heretic: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 94 - 121a
How To Be Human And How To Quit Being Human: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 73 - 93
Poetic Rivalry And Poetic Guilt: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 52 - 72
The Second Great Sinner Of Hell, Farinata degli Uberti: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 22 - 51
Cosmic Battles And Interpersonal Squabbles: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 1 - 21
Straight On, Then Right For The Burning Tombs Of The Heretics: INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 107 - 133
Saved At Last . . . By Mercury, Jesus, The Archangel Michael, Someone: INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 64 - 106
How Much Classical Imagery Can One Poem Take? INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 34 - 63
An Interpolated Episode: Did Dante Intend All These Interpretive Games In COMEDY?
The Witch Erichtho And The Complications In Virgil's Backstory: INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 1 - 33
Being Human, Even In Hell: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 97 - 130
The Walls Of Dis, Virgil's Limits, and Our Poet's Folly: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 64 - 96
An Angry Pilgrim Among The Angry Sinners: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 31 - 63
Consider The Plot: An Overview Of INFERNO's Fifth Circle Of Wrath
Dante, The Poet Between The Classical And Modern Worlds: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 7 - 30
An Interpolated Episode: Nothing In Dante's Hand, Or A Brief History Of COMEDY's Manuscripts
Hell's Biggest Crack Is In The Poetry, Not The Landscape: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 1 - 6
On To The Wrathful, Sort Of: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 97 - 130
O, Fortuna: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 67 - 96
Fate And The Cracks In Dante's Poetry: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 36 - 66
Jousting With Greedy Plutus: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 1 - 35
Virgil Gets The Apocalypse Wrong: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 94 - 115
The Bloodbath That Was, Is, And Will Be Florence: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 58 - 93
The Curious Case Of Ciacco: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 34 - 57
Wide Awake With Cereberus: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 1 - 33
The Case For Francesca: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 88 - 142
The Case Against Francesca: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 88 - 142
Damning Lust, Then Confusing It With Love: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 52 - 87
The Lush Poetry Of The Lustful: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 25 - 51
An Interpolated Episode: An Introduction to the Seven Deadly Sins
Minos, The Connoisseur Of Sin: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 1 - 24
An Interpolated Episode: A Look Back At The First Four Cantos of INFERNO
Cataloguing The Greats You Know And The Ones You Wish You Knew: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 115 - 151
The Great Poets Of Limbo: INFERNO Canto IV, Lines 85 - 114
Virgil's (Mis)Understanding Of The Harrowing Of Hell: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 46 - 84
An Interpolated Episode: Limbo Unraveled
Welcome To Virgil's Home Turf: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 45
When Crossing Acheronte Into The First Ring Of Hell, Don't Faint: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 109 - 136
Charon, The Pagan Ferryman Of The Christian Damned: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 70 - 108
Sometimes, You Get The Hell You Want: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 22 - 69
Abandon Hope For It's The Gate Of Hell: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 1 - 21
Bested By Beatrice, Bested By Virgil: INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 115 - 141
To Be Saved, Tell A Story: INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 76 - 114
Jousting To Tell The Tale: INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 43 - 75
False Modesty (Or Maybe Not): INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 1 - 42
An Interpolated Episode: A Look Back At INFERNO, Canto I, And Look Around The Entire Poem
Virgil The Poet Becomes Virgil The Prophet: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 97 - 136
Virgil To The Rescue: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 67 - 96
Wild Beasts On The Slope And The Slide Into Despair: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 28 - 66
Climbing Away From The Turbulence In The Lake Of The Heart: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 10 - 27
An Interpolated Episode: Who was Dante?
Finding Ourselves Lost In A Dark Wood: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 1 - 9
An Introduction To The Podcast WALKING WITH DANTE