Some questions discussed in this episode:

• What role does art have to play in the transformation of vice into virtue?

• What is the connection, if there is one, between the soul of the artist and the beauty of what they create?

• If virtue is properly presented by the artist, will it always be attractive, and vice always disgusting, to the audience?

• Why is this the where Dante worries the reader might fall away? Why is this an especially dangerous moment for Dante’s vision of the unity of divine justice?

• Why is the dominant metaphors in theses cantos economic?

• Does every penitent in purgatory pass through every terrace? Or are the prayers of those on Earth enough to zap you past one or all of the terraces and directly to Heaven?

• Why is the capstone image of pride the fall of Troy?