The Kings Who Dodged What They Should Have Done, Part One: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 82 - 136
Please help support this podcast. I have a great many hosting, streaming, licensing, journal, and royalty fees associated with this work. Anything you can give helps! Use this PayPal link here to make a contribution.We finally get to see who is down in that beautiful dale in front of us on the lower slopes of Mount Purgatory--and it turns out to be a roster of rulers from the mid- to late-1200s.These kings have mucked up the European landscape and left it in the mess that Dante finds it. They appear to be repenting their actions. But they were also excessively action-oriented figures, going…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.