As we have done throughout PURGATORIO, let's read through a chunk of the canticle to get the plot down so that we can then focus on the many moving parts that comprise it.

Here are cantos XXX and XXXI, in many ways the climax of the first part of COMEDY: the arrival of Beatrice, long awaited since INFERNO, Canto II.

Her arrival is like nothing we can expect. In fact, it's her second coming . . . like Christ, in judgment.

Get ready. She's not one to be toyed with!

[01:29] A read-through of PURGATORIO, Cantos XXX and XXXI.