Virgil Redefines Limbo And The Journey Across The Known Universe: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 16 - 36
If you'd like to donate to WALKING WITH DANTE to keep it afloat without sponsors, you can give some a little in any currency using this PayPal link.Sordello stands amazed in the presence of the great poet Virgil. The pilgrim Dante? Seemingly forgotten.Sordello wants to know how this classical poet got into Purgatory. So Virgil offers an explanation that reiterates what we know about Limbo but also redefines Limbo and perhaps causes Dante the poet to trip across the wires of his own thinking.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we watch Dante renegotiate the presence of Virgil in COMEDY once again…
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