Here are the 20 essays which outline a new anagogical analysis and interpretation of the Garden of Eden in Dante’s Purgatorio (Canto 28-33):
The Restoration of the Soul (Canto 28-31):
The Internal Restoration in Eden in 14 Essays
The Tree and Beatrice’s First Vision (Canto 32):
New Life to the Relationship
Protecting the Tree and Carro
Distorted perception of Reality
Grace and Final Restoration (Canto 33):
The “515” and Grace
Eunoe – and Remembering
Ready for the Stars
These readings are exploratory – seeking to supplement the current scholarship with interpretations on the 4th level of meaning, the anagogical, as essential for the telos of the Comedy, as per Dante’s epistle to his patron Can Grande della Scala in Verona.
Richard Emerson
from Cremona, North of Italy
Summer 2025