Walking With Dante

The Compensations Of Contemplation: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, Lines 130 - 154


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Virgil, Statius, and our pilgrim, Dante, walk along in contemplation, together but also alone with their thoughts.

They're interrupted by the angel at the stairs who shows them the way up to the final terrace of Mount Purgatory.

Our pilgrim loses his sight but gains precision in his other sense. And our poet gains the daring to rewrite one of Jesus's beatitudes.

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

[01:31] My English translation of the passage: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, lines 130 - 154. If you'd like to read along or continue the conversation about this passage, please find its entry on my website, markscarbrough.com.

[03:48] The growing importance of the contemplative life.

[07:46] The color in the holy glare (red) and the point of this journey (peace).

[11:07] The "blind" simile of the May breeze at dawn.

[16:11] The rewritten and tricky beatitude that ends Canto XXIV.

[21:22] Rereading the passage: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIV, lines 130 - 154.

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