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Dante's Purgatorio: Canto XXII
September 24, 2007
Todd Boli secretary, treasurer, Dante Society of America

Secretary-Treasurer of the Dante Society of America Todd Boli, an independent scholar, reads and discusses the 22nd canto of Dante's Purgatorio. His commentary is in English; the reading from the Divine Comedy is in Italian.

This program is part of an ongoing public reading of the Divine Comedy organized by the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Center for Italian Culture in Newton, Massachusetts.

Literature & Philosophy
afterlife | Comedy | Dante Alighieri | Dante's Purgatory | Italian | the devil | world literature | Criticism | Fiction | Instructional | Drama | Writing Process
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