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  2. Purgatorio - Wikipedia

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    Purgatorio (Italian: [purɡaˈtɔːrjo]; Italian for "Purgatory") is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and preceding the Paradiso. The poem was written in the early 14th century.

  3. Legend of the Purgatory of Saint Patrick - Wikipedia

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    L'Espurgatoire Seint Patriz or The Legend of the Purgatory of Saint Patrick is a 12th-century poem by Marie de France. It is an Old French translation of a Latin text Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii by the monk Henry of Saltrey. [1] However, Marie's version is amplified from the original Latin.

  4. List of cultural references in the Divine Comedy - Wikipedia

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    Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.

  5. Purgatory - Wikipedia

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    Le Goff dedicates the final chapter of his book to the Purgatorio, the second canticle of the Divine Comedy, a poem by fourteenth-century Italian author Dante Alighieri. In an interview Le Goff declared: "Dante's Purgatorio represents the sublime conclusion of the slow development of Purgatory that took place in the course of the Middle Ages ...

  6. Divine Comedy in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Dante is depicted (bottom, centre) in Andrea di Bonaiuto's 1365 fresco Church Militant and Triumphant in the Santa Maria Novella church, Florence. In 1373, a little more than half a century after Dante's death, the Florentine authorities softened their attitude to him and decided to establish a department for the study of the Divine Comedy.

  7. Divine Comedy - Wikipedia

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    In the poem, the pilgrim Dante is accompanied by three guides: Virgil, who represents human reason, and who guides him for all of Inferno and most of Purgatorio; Beatrice, who represents divine revelation [4] in addition to theology, grace, and faith; and guides him from the end of Purgatorio onwards; and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who ...

  8. List of English translations of the Divine Comedy - Wikipedia

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    Purgatorio: Blank verse: 2000: A. S. Kline: United States Poetry in translation: Comedy: Prose: 2000–2007: Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander: United States Anchor Books: Comedy: Free verse [33] Known for its extensive scholarly notes; the full text is over 600 pages. [34] The Hollanders were given a Gold Florin award from the city of ...

  9. St Patrick's Purgatory - Wikipedia

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    Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii is a twelfth-century account in Latin of a pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory. [27] Marie de France translated it into French and expanded it into the Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick. A verse drama about the shrine was composed by Spanish national poet Pedro Calderon de la Barca.