In this podcast, we discuss Canto 27 of Dante’s Purgatorio. What are its key themes, and various meanings? We emphasize the purgative and redemptive fire, the contrast between the active and contemplative life, free will, and Virgil’s poignant and profound words of farewell to Dante.

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This podcast can be heard on Soundcloud, iTunes, and YouTube.

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Be sure to take a look at the new, annotated translation of Cornelius Nepos’s Lives of the Great Commanders.