Virgil, The Failure . . . Maybe: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 1 - 9
Cato has given his stern reprimand and everyone has scattered for Mount Purgatory. Even Virgil. He's on the run, ashamed.But why should Virgil be ashamed? What's he done? And what would it matter if he did do something wrong?Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we work through these complicated questions that COMEDY never fully answers. Dante the poet, instead, offers us emotional compensations for the logical flaws in his plot. Are those compensations enough?Here are the segments for this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:[01:37] My English translation of the passage: PURGATORIO, Canto III, lines 1 - 9…
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