Virgil Returns To Center Stage: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 1 - 15

Walking With Dante · Oct 11, 2023 · 22m

Please help support WALKING WITH DANTE to keep it sponsor-free. You can make a donation in any currency using this PayPal link.We've come out of the invective against Italian strife and returned to the plot of COMEDY--and Dante the poet clearly wants to return Virgil to the center of the narrative's stage.But can he? How is Virgil's position negotiated and renegotiated as the damned Virgil walks on into the redeemed landscape.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I explore our return to storytelling in a passage in which Dante the pilgrim seems to fall through the cracks of Dante the poet's larger…