But in Purgatory Dante describes a process—slow and arduous, like analysis—of unriddling the mysteries of self-sabotage. As Beatrice puts it to him: ...

Upon arrival in purgatory, Virgil and Dante are met by the gatekeeper, Cato of Utica, the stern Roman statesman known for his strict pagan morality.

Follow Dante Into Purgatory With Online Exhibition of ‘Divine Comedy’ Drawings The Uffizi Gallery’s digital show features 88 illustrations by 16th-century artist Federico Zuccari.

He transports Dante's own natural perceptions with a sure hand, whether by his clear and easy-to-follow version of the extended simile in canto XXX, where the spring winds and the snow melting in the ...

Virgil, the Roman poet who guides Dante through hell and purgatory, is a rotund, cane-wielding older man in a dark suit and homburg. A dazzlingly sexy, lipsticked Beatrice, Dante's dead lover ...

Read Dante’s ‘Purgatorio’ for All Souls’ Day. We do the poor souls a great kindness by our prayers and pious acts to help speed them on their journey to Paradise.

As Dante notes throughout his Purgatorio, purgatory is itself only a means, a way station, a depot on the way to someplace and, more importantly, Someone: God reigning in eternal glory — the ...

The true measure of a man lies in his ability to cope with failure. Defeat presents us only two alternatives: despair or hope. Dante Alighieri chose the latter.

Now, her take on Dante’s Purgatorio, the lesser-known yet much-loved second canticle of his epic poem, has hit the shelves — just in time for the 700th anniversary of the great poet’s death.

Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin Young to to discuss her translation of Dante’s Purgatorio, excerpts of which are featured on newyorker.com. Bang is a poet who has received the National Book Critics ...