![]() They see examples of virtue and vice from figures represented in classical Greco-Roman myth, as well as in Hebrew and Christian scriptures. ![]() ![]() In Cantos 10-26, Virgil and Dante travel through the seven levels of purgation, one for each of the sins. An angel marks Dante’s brow with seven Ps, one to represent each of the seven deadly sins: pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. Penitents, who sing hymns and comfort one another as they await their opportunity to repent, assist the two in their search. This study guide refers to the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition translated by Robin Kirkpatrick.Ĭantos 1-9 find Dante and his guide, Roman poet Virgil, arriving at Purgatory’s shores and searching for the entrance. Dante also addresses how human history reveals divine truth. ![]() According to Dante, this process, which leads souls closer to the divine, requires that they engage all their human faculties: imaginative, intellectual, and sensory. ![]() Purgatorio explores how human souls purify themselves from sin through a journey to recover their communal selves. Scholars believe that Dante wrote the poem (in Italian, in the Tuscan dialect) during the period, from approximately 1308 to 1320, when he lived in exile from his native Florence. ![]()
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