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The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory [Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri Translated by Charles Eliot Norton PURGATORY CONTENTS CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.†
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory [Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri Translated by Charles Eliot Norton PURGATORY CONTENTS CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.†
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—Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.†
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—Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to Purgatory.†
Canto T.O.
Ante-Purgatory.†
Canto T.O.
Ante-Purgatory.†
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CANTO V. Ante-Purgatory.†
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Ante-Purgatory.†
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—The Gate of Purgatory.†
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PURGATORY CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.†
Canto 1-11
—Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.†
Canto 1-11
By the first people arc probably meant Adam and Eve, who from the terrestrial Paradise, on the summit of the Mount of Purgatory, had seen these stars, visible only from the Southern hemisphere.†
Canto 1-11
This old man, as soon appears, is the younger Cato, and the office here given to him of warden of the souls in the outer region of Purgatory was suggested by the position assigned to him by Virgil in the Aeneid, viii.†
Canto 1-11
In the region of Purgatory outside the gate, the souls have not yet attained this freedom; they are on the way to it, and Cato is allegorically fit to warn and spur them on.†
Canto 1-11
[1] The seven circles of Purgatory†
Canto 1-11
—Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to Purgatory.†
Canto 1-11
[1] Purgatory and Jerusalem are antipodal, and in one direction the Ganges or India was arbitrarily assumed to be their common horizon†
Canto 1-11
[3] The Tiber is the local symbol of the Church of Rome, from whose bosom those who die at peace with her pass to Purgatory†
Canto 1-11
[2] Every English reader recalls Milton's Sonnet to Mr. Henry Lawes:—"Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higher Than his Casella, whom he woo'd to sing, Met in the milder shades of purgatory.†
Canto 1-11
Ante-Purgatory.†
Canto 1-11
[1] They stopped, surprised, at seeing Virgil and Dante advancing to the left, against the rule in Purgatory, where the course is always to the right, symbolizing progress in good†
Canto 1-11
[6] Outside the gate of Purgatory†
Canto 1-11
The value of the prayers of the good on earth in shortening the period of suffering of the souls in Purgatory is more than once referred to by him, as well as the virtue of the intercession of the souls in Purgatory for the benefit of the living.†
Canto 1-11
The value of the prayers of the good on earth in shortening the period of suffering of the souls in Purgatory is more than once referred to by him, as well as the virtue of the intercession of the souls in Purgatory for the benefit of the living.†
Canto 1-11
[8] The prohibition of entering within Purgatory†
Canto 1-11
Ante-Purgatory.†
Canto 1-11
In Purgatory the sun being seen from south of the equator is on the left hand, while at Jerusalem, in the northern hemisphere, it is seen on the right.†
Canto 1-11
CANTO V. Ante-Purgatory.†
Canto 1-11
Ante-Purgatory.†
Canto 1-11
[1] But if thou knowest and canst, give us some direction whereby we may come more speedily there where Purgatory has its true beginning.†
Canto 1-11
—The Gate of Purgatory.†
Canto 1-11
[2] Dante passes three nights in Purgatory, and each night his sleep is terminated by a dream towards the hour of dawn, the time when, according to the belief of classical antiquity, the visions of dreams are symbolic and prophetic†
Canto 1-11
Thou art now arrived at Purgatory; see there the cliff that closes it around; see the entrance, there where it appears divided.†
Canto 1-11
The entrance within the gate of Purgatory is the assurance of justification, which is the change of the soul from a state of sin to a state of justice or righteousness.†
Canto 1-11
Outside the gate of Purgatory justification cannot be complete.†
Canto 1-11
The souls in the Ante-Purgatory typify those who have entered on the way towards justification, but have not yet attained it.†
Canto 1-11
[1] The first sound within Purgatory†
Canto 1-11
[2] Leaving an open space, the first ledge of Purgatory†
Canto 1-11
[11] This deed of humility and charity released him from the necessity of tarrying outside the gate of Purgatory†
Canto 1-11
As Dante passes from each round of Purgatory, an angel removes the P which denotes the special sin there purged away.†
Canto 12-22
[5] I should not yet within Purgatory have diminished my debt of expiation, but, because I delayed repentance till the hour of Death, I should still be outside the gate†
Canto 12-22
Three o'clock in Purgatory corresponds with midnight in Italy.†
Canto 12-22
[7] In the three lower rounds of Purgatory†
Canto 12-22
The woman seen by Dante is the deceitful Siren, who symbolizes the temptation to those sins of sense from which the spirits are purified in the three upper rounds of Purgatory.†
Canto 12-22
[3] A year more in Purgatory than is due for my punishment†
Canto 12-22
[1] Of Purgatory†
Canto 23-33
[6] The words in the Lord's Prayer, "Deliver us from temptation," are not needed for the spirits in Purgatory†
Canto 23-33
[1] It was near sunrise at Jerusalem, and consequently near sunset in Purgatory, midnight in Spain, and midday at the Ganges†
Canto 23-33
[1] Above the level of the gate through which Purgatory is entered, as Statius has already explained (Canto XXI), the vapors of earth do not rise†
Canto 23-33

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(1) (purgatory)
a place or state of temporary suffering while waiting

or in Roman Catholic theology: the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited suffering to pay for their sins
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