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(4.13) | 1 / 81 | Purgatorio is the second part of The Divine Comedy, Dante's epic poem describing man's progress from hell to paradise. Having escaped the Inferno, Dante and his guide, the classical Roman poet Virgil, ascend out of the underworld to the Mountain of Purgatory on an island on the far side of the world. The mountain has nine terraces, seven of which correspond to the seven deadly sins, and two of which constitute an Ante-Purgatory with the Garden of Eden at the summit. Dante writes about sin based on motives in Purgatory, rather than actions as in The Inferno, giving the book a more psychological aspect. Arriving on Easter Sunday, Purgatorio represents the time of human life on earth.… (more) |
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To the dead master of the affirmations, Charles Williams
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To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven. Of the three books of the Commedia, the Purgatorio is, for English readers, the least known, the least quoted - and the most beloved.
Introduction (Dorothy L. Sayers, 1955). [Preface] Since the submission of our Inferno for publication (1994) there hs been an important renewal of discussion of the the of the Comedy in Lanza's (1995, 1997) and Sanguineti's (2001) critical editions: the first privileges the earliest Florentine manuscript, the Trivulziano (Milan, Trivulziano 1080), against Petrocchi's view of the northern trdition as superior, and the second argues for the unique authority of the Vatican's Urb. Lat. 366 (Urb, from Urbino, on the basis of a collation of Barbi's famous 400 loci critici in the 600 existing manuscrits (at the time of this writing, the volume giving Sanguineti's detailed justification of his readings had not yet appeard). THE STORY. Dante and Virgil, emerging from Hell, find themselves on the shore of the Island of Purgatory at the Antipodes. ...
For better waters heading with the wind
My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
For to the second realm I tune my tale,
Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
To leap up into joy celestial.
Canto I (Dorothy L. Sayers, 1955). [Introduction] Dante seems to have completed and circulated the Inferno around 1314. | |
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From those most holy waters, born anew
I came, like trees by change of calendars
Renewed with new-sprung foliage through and through,
Pure and prepared to leap up to the stars.
(Dorothy L. Sayers, 1955). (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Preface] These Inter cantica are not exclusively discussions of the canto's relation to the similarly numbered canto in the Inferno, although that subject clearly deserves more attention than it has heretofore received; we have learned much from writing these notes: the self-referentiality of the Comedy is complex indeed. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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A glance at the Editions list for this work show that most entries are of various translations of the poem - some of these contain commentaries and other introductory material but the core of the book is the poem itself. Accurate separation into works which contain the same extraneous text would be a time-consuming task. (LT user
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▾Book descriptions Purgatorio is the second part of The Divine Comedy, Dante's epic poem describing man's progress from hell to paradise. Having escaped the Inferno, Dante and his guide, the classical Roman poet Virgil, ascend out of the underworld to the Mountain of Purgatory on an island on the far side of the world. The mountain has nine terraces, seven of which correspond to the seven deadly sins, and two of which constitute an Ante-Purgatory with the Garden of Eden at the summit. Dante writes about sin based on motives in Purgatory, rather than actions as in The Inferno, giving the book a more psychological aspect. Arriving on Easter Sunday, Purgatorio represents the time of human life on earth. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Questa nuova opera dantesca conserva - e consolida - la fortunata idea-forza delle precedenti dello stesso autore: trasparenza e didatticità dei commenti e delle note esplicative, aggiornamento e puntualità degli interventi critici.
Ciascuno dei tre volumi si apre con una introduzione mirata alla struttura fisica e all'ordinamento morale di ciascuna delle tre cantiche. In particolare il volume dedicato all'Inferno reca anche un'introduzione globale su tutto l'oltremondo dantesco.
In ciascuno dei tre volumi compaiono tutti i canti.
Ogni canto, completo nei versi e negli apparati, è preceduto da un'introduzione di sintesi narrativa, di valutazione critica, di inquadramento storico. Ed è concluso da una o due letture critiche su temi focali di Dante e della cultura che fu sua, desunte dalle opere dei maggiori dantisti e medievisti italiani e stranieri; da una ricca bibliografia di approfondimento multidisciplinare; da una batteria di proposte di ricerca.
Spesso, al termine del canto, ricorre la rubrica dei "passi controversi" dove vengono considerati i luoghi cruciali del poema di più complessa interpretazione filologica.
Un dossier di tavole illustrate fuori testo testimonia la fortuna iconografica della Commedia nei secoli, dai primitivi maestri miniatori ai grandi pittori del '900.
Rispetto alle precedenti opere dantesche dello stesso autore è stato accresciuto il numero complessivo delle pagine, è stata notevolmente migliorata la leggibilità, sono state aggiunte nuove letture, sono state rivisitate e ampliate molte proposte di ricerca.
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