It is there that Dante will finally be reunited with Beatrice in Purgatorio. Emerging on the other side of the world, Dante’s journey through the underworld, and the Inferno, has come to an end ...

so much so that none other than Virgil himself guides Dante through Inferno and Purgatorio in order to safely deliver him to Paradiso. Many of Doré’s illustrations are so precise in invoking these ...

Dante elevated many of his contemporaries from historical obscurity to literary immortality just by casting them as minor characters in his verse. In Canto IV of Purgatorio, we encounter a ...

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 ...

Dante Alighieri chose the latter. At first, I had difficulty appreciating the Purgatorio, written as it was as a narrative poem. Poetry seldom holds my interest; I find it difficult to understand.

Two of GUSTAVE DORE's oil painting "Dante and Virgil crossing the frozen regions of Hell" and "Jeptha's Daughter," are now on exhibition at the Somerville Art Gallery, corner of Fourteenth-street ...

Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin Young to to discuss her translation of Dante’s Purgatorio, excerpts of which are featured on newyorker.com. Bang is a poet who has received the National Book Critics ...

Ben lontana dall'essere l'ennesima mostra dotta o divulgativa su Dante, "Il Mio Purgatorio" punta a far sì che i giovani si accostino con passione alla lettura della Divina Commedia, trovando in ...

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