Dante's Divine Comedy

Paradiso 2 15.07.2020 25:15 ↓

Dante warns that the journey into paradise is risky. Then, they arrive in the sphere of the Moon.

Paradiso 1 12.07.2020 25:40 ↓

Dante explains how his intellect and desire, drawn by Beatrice, blessed by gods, enable him to rise into reality.

Purgatorio 33 30.06.2020 32:24 ↓

Beatrice prophecies about the future for Dante and Christianity, and Dante is ready, renewed for the stars.

Purgatorio 32 30.06.2020 32:47 ↓

Dante is saved from momentary madness, before Beatrice leads him to a display of spiritual corruption.

Purgatorio 31 28.06.2020 17:28 ↓

Beatrice continues to berate Dante, until he collapses. Then, he's carried through the Lethe and changes.

Purgatorio 30 27.06.2020 20:14 ↓

Cries, angels and light shock and bring a chastising Beatrice, Virgil's disappearance, and Dante's bitter tears.

Purgatorio 29 25.06.2020 17:37 ↓

He follows the enchanting lady along the stream before, with a flash of light, the most extraordinary vision begins.

Purgatorio 28 21.06.2020 26:05 ↓

They are an enchanting, if mysterious, forest. A solitary lady approaches at Dante's request. They converse.

Purgatorio 27 14.06.2020 20:34 ↓

Dante is before the flames. He hesitates, terrified. But he gathers his will, with the help of Virgil and the angels.

Purgatorio 26 13.06.2020 24:46 ↓

Dante is before the flames that would render him capable of divine love. He pauses. He desires and fears.

Purgatorio 25 10.06.2020 22:49 ↓

Dante is bursting with questions. Virgil and Statius to describe the creation of our physical and subtle bodies.

Purgatorio 24 07.06.2020 19:19 ↓

Dante and Forese continue to talk on the nature of desire and perception. They encounter another tree and angel.

Purgatorio 23 06.06.2020 22:30 ↓

Dante meets a friend from life, and it becomes clearer how their communing did and didn't truly sustain him.

Purgatorio 22 03.06.2020 29:35 ↓

Virgil and Statius talk on new insights into the nature of divine reality and the limits Christian understanding.

Purgatorio 21 31.05.2020 24:29 ↓

A transitional canto, Virgil and Dante meet the soul of Statius. The two pilgrims have become three.

Purgatorio 20 30.05.2020 25:14 ↓

Dante speaks with another mourning soul and is led to lament the history that shaped his own life.

Purgatorio 19 27.05.2020 19:49 ↓

Dante has a second dream. It disturbs him as they make their way to the fourth terrace where souls mourn.

Purgatorio 18 23.05.2020 21:39 ↓

They talk more on love, and it's good and bad forms, before a crowd of rushing souls run up behind them.

Purgatorio 17 23.05.2020 27:53 ↓

The midpoint of the Divine Comedy is filled with thoughts on love, the exact midpoint with the word itself.

Purgatorio 16 20.05.2020 23:30 ↓

They are the terrace where blind rage becomes righteous anger. A discussion brings revisionary truths about free will and love.

Purgatorio 15 17.05.2020 26:40 ↓

Encountering another angel of light, Virgil explains a way of limitless growth in life. Dante is rapt.

Purgatorio 14 15.05.2020 15:36 ↓

Still with the reforming envious souls, Dante reflects on the degeneracy of a civilisation that's become avaricious.

Purgatorio 13 13.05.2020 20:29 ↓

The second terrace seems barren, though the generous sun is guide and they meet envious souls with eyes wired shut.

Purgatorio 12 10.05.2020 21:57 ↓

Alleviated of the constrained vision that pride brings, an angel sweeps down and shows the way up.

Purgatorio 11 09.05.2020 16:38 ↓

With the souls carrying heavy burdens, Dante speaks with them. He learns about the gordian knot of pride.