The Climb Out Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 73 - 99
Dante and Virgil begin their exit from the terrace of pride on Mount Purgtory. To do so, they must encounter and angel who implicitly calls back Lucifer (or Satan) into the text yet who welcomes them ...
17 Apr 202428min
Storytelling, Moral Allegory, And The Human Paradox: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 64 - 72
Dante the poet adds a coda to his (fake) ekphrastic poetry on the reliefs in the road bed of the terrace of pride on Mount Purgatory. He steps back and explains the very nature of the art to us: reale...
14 Apr 202418min
More Questions Than Answers About The Reliefs In The Road Bed Of Pride: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 22 - 63
We've spent three episodes going over the reliefs in the road bed of the terrace of pride on Mount Purgatory. Now let's step back and look at the whole passage. Yes, its sweet. But also its curiously ...
10 Apr 202427min
Walking On Pride, Part Three: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 49 - 60
We've come to the last four reliefs in the paving stones of the terrace of pride. We're almost on our way to the next terrace of Purgatory . . . but not quite. Dante the pilgrim has to pay attention t...
7 Apr 202427min
Walking On Pride, Part Two: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 37 - 48
We're still walking on top of the reliefs of the prideful in the road bed of the first terrace of Mount Purgatory after the gate: the terrace of pride. Here, Dante the pilgrim sees four more figures: ...
3 Apr 202424min
Walking On Pride, Part One: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 25 - 36
Virgil has directed Dante the pilgrim to look down at the road bed. Dante sees figures carved into the terrace . . . and he begins to walk on pride, the way one might walk over tombs in the floor of a...
31 Mar 202426min
Art, Realism, And Dante's Sheer Audacity: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, lines 13 - 24
The opening of PURGATORIO, Canto XII, becomes even stranger as the poet Dante claims that the art he’s about to see beneath his feet is even clearer than the actual events when they happened.All well ...
27 Mar 202423min
Dante's Pride Both Lanced And Swelling: PURGATORIO, Canto XII, Lines 1 - 12
Dante is still hunched over, going along like a dumb ox, paired up with the souls on the terrace of pride. His pride has been lanced by their monologues.Until Virgil tells him to be like the damned Ul...
24 Mar 202420min
