of Dante Alighieri
The second cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
Produced by Peter Duval Smith
PART 3 (Cantos 12-17):
Leaving the first terrace of the Proud,
Dante and Virgil climb to the second terrace of the Envious, whose eyelids are stitched up with wire; Guy del Ducs speaks his anger and his prophesy; the poets reach the third terrace of the Wrathful, who move in a suffocating cloud of dark smoke; Mark Lombardo mourns the badness of the times, blaming the worldliness of the Church; Virgil explains the system of Purgatory.
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