Now it’s the turn of Purgatorio, where souls who need purifying are cleansed from of the stain of sin. After that — heaven. Note the neat bit of catechesis (one of many) that Dante ...

Still, O’Donnell more than compensates for the occasional bathos with some striking interpretive insights, as well as with the helpful structure ... yet inflict” (Purgatorio 30:55–57). It’s the only ...

Not everyone in the 14th century was charmed by the poem’s novelty or by Dante’s creative use of tradition in its three-part ...

This unit will consider the second and third cantiche of Dante’s poem: Purgatorio and Paradiso. The former relates the character Dante’s journey through Purgatory: a realm of transformation and ...