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 ...

This reinvention of “Purgatorio” in the spirit of James Joyce’s Ulysses replaces Dante’s cast with contemporary figures including Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Putin and Marina ...

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 ...