Peregrin

 Note (2014) found in lockdown: “The word ‘peregrin’ (pilgrim) first appears in Canto 2 of Purgatorio.  For the first time in the Commedia we’re on pilgrimage, on the way to learning about ourselves. How do we describe Inferno? Not a pilgrimage. An endurance test, wakeup call, warning, a place of no exit. But an early sign the infernal state has been escaped is the use of [‘peregrin’]. It’s behind us. Pilgrimage is a medieval business, a way of finding the Way. It's what we do on earth in our allotted time. Hence Purgatorio, the most accessible of Dante’s three places.”