β Dante Alighieri; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth;
π Fiction
π
2017
π Dover Publications
π English
β 237 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
Purgatorio
β Scribed by Dante
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Anchor Books
- Year
- 2012;2003
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 546 KB
- Edition
- 1st Anchor books ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Now I shall sing the second kingdom,
there where the soul of man is cleansed,
made worthy to ascend to heaven.
In the second book of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy , Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at the threshold of heaven, has its terraces, each representing one of the seven mortal sins. With Virgil again as his guide, Dante climbs the mountain; the poet shows us, on its slopes, those whose lives were variously governed by pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. As he witnesses the penance required on each successive terrace, Dante often feels the smart of his own sins. His reward will be a walk through the garden of Eden, perhaps the most remarkable invention in the history of literature.
Now Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the...
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