Distractions And The Demands Of Writing About Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 1 - 21
Dante the pilgrim has had his last words with Belacqua and begins his journey on up the mountain. Or at least, laterally along the mountain of Purgatory.But those negligent souls with Belacqua are not done with the pilgrim. They point him out and seem suddenly to leap into action . . . or at least, into words.Dante is . . . flattered? Proud? Distracted. Virgil is having none of it. He reprimands the pilgrim and may give us a clue into the changing poetics of PURGATORIO.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we walk through the opening lines of canto V of PURGATORIO.Here are the segments for this…
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