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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.
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.
Dante gazes at Mount Purgatory in an allegorical portrait by Agnolo Bronzino, painted c. 1530. The Divine Comedy is composed of 14,233 lines that are divided into three cantiche (singular cantica) – Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso () – each consisting of 33 cantos (Italian plural canti).
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.
Christina Haack is feeling light as a feather. While promoting her new house-flipping competition show The Flip Off, the HGTV star said she was more than happy to film the series solo after ...
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.
Eunoe [needs IPA] (Italian: Eunoè; Ancient Greek: Εὐνοη, romanized: Eúnoē) is a feature of Dante's Divine Comedy created by Dante as the fifth river of the dead (taking into consideration that Cocytus was described as a lake rather than a river).