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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.
While scholars have thus far not provided a history of the Anima Sola (or Ánimas del purgatorio in Spanish), [citation needed] the practice of praying for the souls in purgatory extends at least as far back as the Council of Trent in which the following was determined:
The change happened at about the same time as the composition of the book Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii, an account by an English Cistercian of a penitent knight's visit to the land of Purgatory reached through a cave in the island known as Station Island or St Patrick's Purgatory in the lake of Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland. Le ...
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.
Purgatorio (Purgatory), the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy; Purgatory, a 1938 play by William Butler Yeats; Purgatory , a Judge Dredd comics spinoff story; Purgatori, a fictional Chaos! Comics character; Purgatory, in DC Comics, a Green Lantern enemy
—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,'
Virgil and Dante meet Belacqua, Holkham manuscript at the Bodleian. Belacqua is a minor character in Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio, Canto IV.He is considered the epitome of indolence and laziness, but he is nonetheless saved from the punishment of Hell in Inferno and often viewed as a comic element in the poem for his wit.
Purgatorio may refer to: Purgatorio, the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy; Purgatorio (album), 2004 Tangerine Dream album; Purgatorio (Avella), frazione of Avella, Italy; The third movement of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 10 (Mahler), left incomplete at the time of his death.