Dante the pilgrim has gotten one answer out of Virgil about the nature of abundance and scarcity in terms of heavenly good . . . but that answer was not apparently enough. So he goes back for more.

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for this continuation of Virgil's lesson between the second and third terraces of Purgatory proper. As we leave the envious behind, Virgil offers us a lesson in the unending and multiplying faculty of love.

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

[01:41] My English translation of the passage: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, lines 58 - 84. If you'd like to read along or continue the conversation with me, please find this episode on my website, markscarbrough.com.

[04:28] The food and agrarian imagery in the passage: desire and its satisfaction.

[08:18] The light imagery in this passage: links back to the opening of Canto XV, as well as to Aquinas' SUMMA and Dante's own CONVIVIO.

[14:58] Profit: the motive or idea of multiplicity has been in Canto XV all along.

[16:31] Virgil: a character of Dante the poet's mouthpiece?

[20:38] The plot returns (sort of) by a redefinition of the problem of pain.

[24:28] Rereading the passage: PURGATORIO, Canto XV, lines 58 - 84.