Canto 2! In today’s podcast, we take a look at Dante’s famous theological “trigger warning” to the reader. Faced with the impossible task of representing the completely unrepresentable, he resorts to the abstract to help him describe heaven’s glories. Also, those spots on the moon come from what, exactly? Dante says a change in substance; Beatrice (as always) corrects him and says it’s actually God’s intelligence, permeating every particle of existence.Trans. John Ciardi

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