The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete
Translated by Henry Francis Cary
The Divine Comedy's Purgatorio is where hope returns. After the harrowing descent through Hell's circles, Dante emerges on the shores of Purgatory - a mountain rising from the sea, its terraces ascending toward the celestial spheres. Here, souls are not damned forever but purifying themselves for Heaven. His guide, the Roman poet Virgil, leads him upward through seven terraces corresponding to the seven deadly sins, each punishing the sin while burning it away. Unlike Inferno's frozen despair, Purgatorio breathes with possibility. The shades Dante encounters are not beyond redemption but actively working toward grace. They climb, they hope, they sing. The poetry itself seems to rise with the mountain's slope, growing lighter and more luminous as Dante approaches the Earthly Paradise at the summit. This is the middle journey of the most influential work in Western literature: a meditation on the soul's capacity for transformation, the long labor of becoming worthy of heaven, and the strange mercy of a God who allows us to climb back.
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“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.””
— Dante Alighieri
“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.””
— Dante Alighieri
“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.””
— Dante Alighieri
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.””
— Dante Alighieri
“Through me you pass into the city of woe:Through me you pass into eternal pain:Through me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric moved:To rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.””
— Dante Alighieri
“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.””
— Dante Alighieri
“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?””
— Dante Alighieri
“Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ””
— Dante Alighieri
“The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.””
— Dante Alighieri
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