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So begins Purgatorio, the second part of the 14th-century poem La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy consists of three parts: hell, purgatory and heaven ...

In the poem’s first canto, Dante learns that he can’t reach God by himself. He needs the help of others to guide him to our common telos. When heavenly mediators are moved by divine love to summon ...

In 2006, the poet Mary Jo Bang came across Caroline Bergvall’s “VIA (48 Dante Variations),” a pastiche poem containing every translation of the first stanza of Dante’s Inferno Bergvall ...

Let me explain. We have seen throughout these past 30 days of climbing the Mount Purgatory that Dante always has to turn away or shield his eyes from the intense brilliance of the Angels.

Upon arrival in purgatory, Virgil and Dante are met by the gatekeeper, Cato of Utica, the stern Roman statesman known for his strict pagan morality.

As the poem starts, Dante’s alter ego prepares to scale Mount Purgatory—guided, as in the Inferno, by the Roman poet Virgil—in the hopes of reuniting with his beloved Beatrice in paradise.

Recall Dante at the summit of Mount Purgatory, in Canto 27, after he has been purged of all his passions. Virgil says: “I crown and miter you lord of yourself.” ...

WTTW Channel 11 is showcasing “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” a film by Ric Burns that mingles the life of the dour Florentine poet with his famous journey down into hell, up Mount Purgatory ...

The reader, following the travelers Dante and Virgil, is then led out of the infernal darkness into the starlight, and, in increasing brightness, up the successive terraces of Mount Purgatory ...

Previously, we left Dante off at the top of Mount Purgatory, where Virgil left him and Beatrice came to rescue him and the pair passed through a sphere of fire to behold the spheres of heaven.