Purgatorio / Dante Alighieri ; [translated and with notes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, author.

Contributor:

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, translator.

Series:

Dover Thirft editions.

Dover Thirft editions

Standardized Title:

Purgatorio. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Purgatory--Poetry.

Purgatory.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 273 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, Inc., 2017.

Summary:

A carefully curated library of the world's greatest literature, Dover Thrift Editions are the most affordable choice for today's readers. The series offers a vast selection of complete and unabridged titles, each a classic work of fiction, nonfiction, poetry or drama. The second book in the three-part Divine Comedy finds Danle and his guide, Virgil, halfway between Heaven and Hell. Having portrayed the tortures of the damned in Inferno, Dante resumes his allegory of the soul's journey to God with Purgatorio. A place of pain but also hope, Purgatory allows its suffering souls to reflect upon their sins and to work toward their moral improvement, paving the way for their eventual entry to Paradiso. Dante transformed the traditional notion of Purgatory by depicting how aspiring souls could undergo moral change, exchanging their human frailty for divine perfection. His exploration of theological issues, especially the role of free will, offers an eloquent and inspiring parable of human possibility and redemption. This edition features the renowned translation by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and serves as a companion volume to the Dover editions of Inferno and Paradiso. Book jacket.

Contents:

I The Shores of Purgatory.-Cato of Utica 1

II The Celestial Pilot.-Casella 4

III The Foot of the Mountain.-Those who have died in Contumacy of Holy Church.-Manfredi 8

IV Farther Ascent of the Mountain.-The Negligent, who postponed Repentance till the last Hour.-Belacqua 11

V Those who died by Violence, but repentant.-Buonconte di Monfeltro.-La Pia 15

VI Sordello 18

VII The Valley of the Princes 22

VIII The Guardian Angels and the Serpent.-Nino di Gallura.-Currado Malaspina 25

IX Dante's Dream of the Eagle.-The Gate of Purgatory 29

X The First Circle.-The Proud.-The Sculptures on the Wall 32

XI Omberto di Santafiore.-Oderisi d'Agobbio.-Provenzan Salvani 36

XII The Sculptures on the Pavement.-Ascent to the Second Circle 39

XIII The Second Circle.-The Envious.-Sapia of Siena 43

XIV Guido del Duca and Renier da Calboli 47

XV The Third Circle.-The Irascible 50

XVI Marco Lombardo 54

XVII Dante's Dream of Anger.-The Fourth Circle.-The Slothful 58

XVIII Virgil's Discourse of Love.-The Abbot of San Zeno 61

XIX Dante's Dream of the Siren.-The Fifth Circle.-The Avaricious and Prodigal.-Pope Adrian V 65

XX Hugh Capet.-The Earthquake 68

XXI The Poet Statius 72

XXII The Sixth Circle.-The Gluttonous.-The Mystic Tree 76

XXIII Forese 79

XXIV Buonagiunta da Lucca.-Pope Martin IV., and others 83

XXV Discourse of Statius on Generation.-The Seventh Circle.-The Wanton 87

XXVI Guido Guinicelli and Arnaldo Daniello 90

XXVII Dante's Sleep upon the Stairway, and his Dream of Leah.-Arrival at the Terrestrial Paradise 94

XXVIII The Terrestrial Paradise.-The River Lethe-Matilda 98

XXIX The Triumph of the Church 101

XXX Beatrice 105

XXXI Reproaches of Beatrice and Confession of Dante.-The Passage of Lethe 109

XXXII The Tree of Knowledge 112

XXXIII The River Eunoë 116.

ISBN:

9780486815336

0486815331

OCLC:

962257730