Two Ways Of Being Dead: PURGATORIO, Canto II, Lines 43 -51
We've come to the end of the angel sequence in PURGATORIO, Canto II. The souls arrive on the shores of Purgatory singing a psalm that is unique in the medieval liturgy and that points to important pieces of Dante's developing theology.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we explore this short passage from PURGATORIO, talking about some of its INFERNO references, talking about a garbled line in the text, and reading closely the psalm the souls are singing.Here are the segments of this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:[00:48] My English translation of the passage: PURGATORIO, Canto II, lines 43 - 51. If…
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