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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.
Oderisi da Gubbio (Gubbio, circa 1240 - Rome, 1299) was an Italian painter and manuscript illuminator of the 13th century.Few details of his life are known. Documents to his activities in Bologna span from 1262 to 1271.
The legend of St Patrick's Purgatory (Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii) written in that century by Hugh of Saltry, also known as Henry of Sawtry, was "part of a huge, repetitive contemporary genre of literature of which the most familiar today is Dante's"; [45] another is the Visio Tnugdali.
Jean Hollander (née Haberman; [1] July 5, 1928 – April 10, 2019) was a poet, translator and teacher.Together with her husband Robert Hollander she published a verse translation of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, for which she was awarded the Gold Medal for Dante Translation from the City of Florence.
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 ...
—Purgatorio, Canto II, Lines 76-78 [3] Subsequently, Dante identifies Casella by name and asks him to sing. Casella's singing is referred to as characteristically sweet by Dante. Casella begins to sing the first lines of a Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona, a poem written by Dante himself. [4] "'Love that converses with me in my mind,'
Mangione has been charged after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot in New York City on Dec. 4 Luigi Mangione Had 'Debilitating' Back Pain, Went 'Radio Silent' to Friends Before ...
According to a tradition recorded by early commentators of the Divine Comedy, Pia de' Tolomei is identified as "la Pia" in Canto V of Purgatorio. In this canto, Dante and Virgil encounter souls who repented at the time of their violent deaths and now reside in the second division of Ante-Purgatory, which is at the base of the mountain of Purgatory. [1]