The Prisoners Of Hope: PURGATORIO, Canto V, Lines 22 - 36
We come to a second scene, certainly sequential, almost contemporaneous with the previous scene among Belacqua's cohorts.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we come to one of the great contrasting moments in PURGATORIO: the lazy souls with Belacqua vs. these souls, traversing the slope, singing, running, shouting, and making an all-around ruckus.The key here, as always (so far), is Virgil. His response seems the opposite in this scene to his response just a few lines earlier. What gives?Here are the segments for this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:[01:16] My English translation of the passage…
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