The Descent Of The Arno Into Metaphoric Space: PURGATORIO, Canto XIV, Lines 43 - 72
Dante has been cagey about where he's from, using periphrastic phrasing to describe the Arno valley without naming it.It was apparently the wrong thing to do . . . because one of the envious penitents is going to pick up the pilgrim's (and the poet's?) rhetorical games and push them much further into fully metaphoric space that is also somehow prophetic space, a diatribe against Tuscan corruption that borders on the incomprehensible at this moment before the speakers are named in Purgatorio XIV.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we play with truth and metaphor in the increasingly complex landscape…
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