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The poem was written in the early 14th century. It is an allegory telling of the climb of Dante up the Mount of Purgatory, guided by the Roman poet Virgil – except for the last four cantos, at which point Beatrice takes over as Dante's guide. Allegorically, Purgatorio represents the penitent Christian life. [1]
tradition of purgatory. With his Purgatorio, in which the “second kingdom” of the afterlife is a seven-story mountain situated at the antipodes to Jerusalem, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) created a poetic synthesis of theology, Ptolemaic cosmology, and moral psychology depicting the gradual purification of the image and likeness of God in….
Purgatorio Summary. Dante, having just emerged from his journey through Hell, arrives in Purgatory at dawn on Easter Sunday. With Virgil, his guide through the afterlife, he meets the soul of Cato, a pagan political leader who died in the first century B.C.E. Cato grants the two men entrance into Purgatory, and in preparation for the journey ...
Purgatório é a segunda parte da Divina Comédia de Dante Alighieri. Está dividido em trinta e três cantos. É a criação mais original de Dante, pois ao contrário do Inferno e do Paraíso, conceções imaginadas por diversas religiões, o Purgatório, na época em que A Divina Comédia foi escrita, era um novo dogma da Igreja Católica.
Dante - Poet, Inferno, Purgatorio: Dante’s years of exile were years of difficult peregrinations from one place to another—as he himself repeatedly says, most effectively in Paradiso [XVII], in Cacciaguida’s moving lamentation that “bitter is the taste of another man’s bread and…heavy the way up and down another man’s stair.” Throughout his exile Dante nevertheless was ...
[1] To begin our discussion of Purgatorio, we begin by introducing the importance of the theology of Purgatory.As historian Jacques Le Goff notes in his book The Birth of Purgatory (orig. 1981; trans. Arthur Goldhammer for U. of Chicago Press, 1984), Purgatory as a concept was, in Dante’s time, of much more recent vintage than Hell or Paradise, both of which have ancient origins.
Dante’s Paradise exists in the Empyrean, outside the cosmos and beyond time and space. The genius of Dante’s imagination never ceases to amaze the readers of his Poem, and his explanation of the formation of the pit of Hell and the mountain of Purgatory is cleverly conceived. Virgil explains this to him in the last canto of the Inferno.
