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Purgatorio
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The second book in the three-part Divine Comedy finds Dante and his guide, Virgil, halfway between Heaven and Hell. Having portrayed the tortures of the damned in Inferno, Dante resumes his allegory of the soul's journey to God with Purgatorio. A place of pain but also hope, Purgatory allows its suffering souls to reflect upon their sins and to work toward their moral improvement, paving the way for their eventual entry to Paradiso.
Dante transformed the traditional notion of Purgatory by depicting how aspiring souls could undergo moral change, exchanging their human frailty for divine perfection. His exploration of theological issues, especially the role of free will, offers an eloquent and inspiring parable of human possibility and redemption. This edition features the renowned translation by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and serves as a companion volume to the Dover editions of Inferno and Paradiso.
Dante transformed the traditional notion of Purgatory by depicting how aspiring souls could undergo moral change, exchanging their human frailty for divine perfection. His exploration of theological issues, especially the role of free will, offers an eloquent and inspiring parable of human possibility and redemption. This edition features the renowned translation by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and serves as a companion volume to the Dover editions of Inferno and Paradiso.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Note
- Contents
- I. The Shores of Purgatory.—Cato of Utica
- II. The Celestial Pilot.—Casella
- III. The Foot of the Mountain.—Those who have died in Contumacy of Holy Church.—Manfredi
- IV. Farther Ascent of the Mountain.—The Negligent, who postponed Repentance till the last Hour. —Belacqua
- V. Those who died by Violence, but repentant —Buonconte di Monfeltro.—La Pia
- VI. Sordello
- VII. The Valley of the Princes.
- VIII. The Guardian Angels and the Serpent —Nino di Gallura.—Currado Malaspina
- IX. Dante’s Dream of the Eagle.—The Gate of Purgatory
- X. The First Circle.—The Proud.—The Sculptures on the Wall
- XI. Omberto di Santafiore.—Oderisi d’Agobbio —Provenzan Salvani
- XII. The Sculptures on the Pavement.—Ascent to the Second Circle
- XIII. The Second Circle.—The Envious.—Sapia of Siena
- XIV. Guido del Duca and Renier da Calboli
- XV. The Third Circle.—The Irascible
- XVI. Marco Lombardo
- XVII. Dante’s Dream of Anger.—The Fourth Circle. —The Slothful
- XVIII. Virgil’s Discourse of Love.—The Abbot of San Zeno
- XIX. Dante’s Dream of the Siren.—The Fifth Circle. —The Avaricious and Prodigal. —Pope Adrian V
- XX. Hugh Capet.—The Earthquake
- XXI. The Poet Statius
- XXII. The Sixth Circle.—The Gluttonous —The Mystic Tree
- XXIII. Forese
- XXIV. Buonagiunta da Lucca.—Pope Martin IV., and others
- XXV. Discourse of Statius on Generation —The Seventh Circle.—The Wanton
- XXVI. Guido Guinicelli and Arnaldo Daniello
- XXVII. Dante’s Sleep upon the Stairway, and his Dream of Leah.—Arrival at the Terrestrial Paradise
- XXVIII. The Terrestrial Paradise.—The River Lethe —Matilda
- XXIX. The Triumph of the Church.
- XXX. Beatrice
- XXXI. Reproaches of Beatrice and Confession of Dante. —The Passage of Lethe
- XXXII. The Tree of Knowledge
- XXXIII. The River Eunoë
- NOTES