Inferno and start of Purgatorio 11-5-10

Published: Nov. 7, 2010, 9:43 p.m.

More on the Inferno, and on Ulysses and Ugolina; Dante's attitude towards the damned compared with God's and with Virgil's.\xa0 The naming of Ugolino's sons in his song.\xa0 The relation of the seven increasing sins in Inferno and their reverse-order decrease in Purgatorio.\xa0 The likewise increasing uncertainty of Virgil in Purgatorio.\xa0 Ulysses on the short vigil of the senses.\xa0 Merwin and Heaney as translators of Dante into a genuinely poetic vernacular.