All 4 Uses of
typify
in
Dante's Purgatory -- translated by Norton
- 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 *
- [4] The four cardinal Virtues, in purple, the imperial color, typifying their rule over human conduct.†
Canto 23-33
- [2] The Pauline Epistles, typified by their writer, whose sword is the symbol of war and martyrdom, a contrary care to the healing of men.†
Canto 23-33
- The turning of the eyes of the harlot upon Dante seems to signify the dealings of Boniface with the Italians, which awakened the jealousy of Philip; and the dragging of the car, transformed into a monster, through the wood, so far as to hide it from the poet, may be taken as typifying the removal of the seat of the Papacy from Rome to Avignon, in 1305.†
Canto 23-33
Definition:
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(typify) to be a typical example of; or to represent or be characteristic of