The Essential Fulcrum Of COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 134 - 148

The beautiful lady winds up her discourse with a corollary that combines both revelation and reason to offer a fulcrum to COMEDY as a whole: The classical world dreamed of Eden.

Redemption is a cul-de-sac, returning us to our primal state while also offering us a way to remain readers of the classical world's poetry.

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we explore the end of the lady's discourse, the longest speech by a woman yet in COMEDY.

Here are the segments for this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:

[01:15] My English translation of PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, lines 134 - 148. If you'd like to read along or drop a comment on this episode to continue the conversation, please find the entry for this episode on my website: markscarbrough.com.

[02:55] Revelation and reason as coequals in scholastic theology.

[06:52] The Golden Age and the Garden of Eden as overlapping spaces and the cul-de-sac of revelation.

[09:14] The pilgrim (and indeed, the poem) in the cul-de-sac with the classical poets on one side and the beautiful lady on the other.

[12:27] The longest speech by a woman yet in COMEDY.

[16:57] Rereading this passage: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, lines 134 - 148.