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This new critical volume contains commentary on the 'Purgatorio' by 33 international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic.
Author : Allen Mandelbaum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520250567
This new critical volume contains commentary on the 'Purgatorio' by 33 international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic.
Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Purgatory
ISBN : 9780691019109
Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780253336514
Author : Paul Pearson
Publisher : Tan Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781505117530
Join Father Paul Pearson of the Oratory as he guides you on a spiritual journey through one of the great classics of Christian literature, Dante's Purgatorio. Purgatory is the least understood of the three possible "destinations" when we die (though unlike heaven or hell it is not an eternal one) and is mysterious to many Christians and even to many Catholics today. As he did in his first volume in the Spiritual Direction from Dante trilogy, Avoiding the Inferno, Father Pearson adroitly draws out the great spiritual insights hidden in The Divine Comedy. Learn how and why: Dante's presentation of Purgatory is something beautifully hopeful. Freedom is the dominant theme here and the rejoicing of captives delivered from their prisons the dominant tone. Purgatory is filled with good people, people well on their way to becoming saints. They are increasingly concerned for one another and generous, the more so the higher on the mountain they climb. They are interested in one another's well-being and rejoice in one another's victories as though they were their own. The sufferings on Mount Purgatory are not something that happens to the souls there; they happen for them. This has all been designed for their benefit, and they are grateful to God for making it possible. Purgatory is God's merciful plan for allowing us to rediscover the joy and freedom of being human, the joy for which we were created but which sin has smothered and distorted. This is what we can be. This is what we can begin to be, even now, if only we will separate ourselves from sin. What are we waiting for? Join Father Pearson in Ascending Mount Purgatory.
Author : William Warren Vernon
Publisher :
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Dante
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141919981
In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to assuage their earthly vices. Only by learning from them can he achieve his final enlightened transition to the lost Earthly Paradise at the mountain’s summit, where he meets his dead love, Beatrice, and prepares to ascend to Heaven. Depicting a realm of intense sensation and physical experience, Dante’s poem transformed the traditional Christian idea of Purgatory by showing how the free will of the aspiring soul could change wordly perversions into perfection. It is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human possibility, hope and redemption.
Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1681376059
A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator. Winner of the American Literary Translators Association 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry. Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante’s great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one’s way in the middle of one’s life is, unsurprisingly, the beating heart of The Divine Comedy, as this powerful and lucid new translation by the poet D. M. Black makes wonderfully clear. After days spent plumbing the depths of hell, the pilgrim staggers back to the clear light of day in a state of shock, the sense of pervasive dread and deep bewilderment with which he began his pilgrimage as intensified as it is alleviated by his terminal vision of evil. The slow and initially arduous climb up the mount of Purgatory that ensues, guided as always by Virgil, his poetic model and mentor, is simultaneously a reckoning with human limits and a rediscovery of human potential in the light of divine promise. Dante’s Purgatorio, which has been an inspiration to poets as varied as Shelley and T. S. Eliot, is a book full of human stories and philosophical inquiry; it is also a tale of individual reintegration and healing. Black, a distinguished psychoanalyst as well as a poet, provides an introduction and commentary to this masterpiece by Dante from a contemporary point of view in this bilingual edition.
Author : William Warren Vernon
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Allen Mandelbaum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520940520
This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume Lectura Dantis, contains expert, focused commentary on the Purgatorio by thirty-three international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic. The cast of characters is as colorful as before, although this time most of them are headed for salvation. The canto-by-canto commentary allows each contributor his or her individual voice and results in a deeper, richer awareness of Dante's timeless aspirations and achievements.