All 11 Uses
purgatory
in
Dante's Paradise -- translated by Norton
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- [3] In the twenty-fifth Canto of Purgatory, Dante has said that when the articulation of the brain is perfect God breathes into it a new spirit, the living soul; and he means here that, like St. Paul caught up into Paradise, he cannot tell "whether in the body or Out of the body.†
Canto 1-11
- [2] The sister of Corso Donati and of Forese: see Purgatory, Canto XXIII†
Canto 1-11 *
- Purgatory, Canto IX.†
Canto 1-11
- [3] Alighiero, from whom, it would appear from his station in Purgatory, Dante inherited the sin of pride, as well as his name†
Canto 12-22
- See Purgatory, Canto XII.†
Canto 12-22
- [1] An appellation appropriate to any one of the Muses (whose fountain Hippocrene sprang at the stamp of Pegasus); here probably applied to Urania, already once invoked by the poet (Purgatory, XXIX.†
Canto 12-22
- [2] The devastation of Bohemia in 1303, by Albert of Austria (the "German Albert" of the sixth canto of Purgatory), will soon set in motion the pen of the recording angel†
Canto 12-22
- Purgatory, Canto VII.†
Canto 12-22
- See Purgatory, Canto X. [4] King Hezekiah.†
Canto 12-22
- See Purgatory, Canto XXIX.†
Canto 12-22
- [5] Adam's stay in the Earthly Paradise on the summit of the mount of Purgatory was thus a little more than six hours; the sun changes quadrant with every six hours†
Canto 23-33
Definitions:
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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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)