Ecstatic While Longing For Home: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 1 - 18
Help me keep WALKING WITH DANTE sponsor-free. You can donate to support the podcast at this PayPal link here.We move closer to the negligent rulers on the slope of Mount Purgatory, seated or standing about in a dale on the slope before the main gate.Among them, we encounter longing, yearning, dreaming, sadness, all at the moment of the end of the day, its death, even as someone is already anticipating sunrise (and resurrection?).Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we explore one of the most beautiful passages in Dante's COMEDY: human, intimate, and cosmic, all the crisscrossing we expect of this…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.