The canto ends with another character, the illuminator, Oderisi, l'honor d'Agobbio ...

This is the first terrace of Purgatory proper, with three images -- Dante calls them visibile parlare , speech made visible -- of antitypes ...

The canto presents some unusual interpretive challenges beginning with the very first terzina: La concubina di Titone antico Gia s'...

though each a life of narrow span, Ne'er stretched to summers more than seven, befalls, Yet deathless doth the race endure, and still Pe...

Here are a few follow-ups to questions raised during our last session, taken from Wikipedia's basic article on Purgatory : Besides the c...

Atene e Lacedemona, che fenno l'antiche leggi e furon sì civili, fecero al viver bene un picciol cenno verso di te, che fai tanto sottil...

Robert Fagles has a new translation of the Aeneid , and has this to say about the poem in today's New York Times : “I usually try not to...

Wikipedia's capsule view of the Commedia. There are many, many online resources helpful for reading Dante. For example, in Purgatorio VI...

Speaking of the Bodleian , this link will take you to illuminations of the Commedia from a 14th century North Italian manuscript. Here Dan...

We've set up a small reserve area at the Fruitville library for any Purgatorio -related articles, books, or other resources which the g...

Jutta shares two links of interest: First, an academic article by Aldo Scaglione that offers a detailed look at Purgatorio V. Here's a ...

The appearance of Manfred of Sicily is occasion for one of the most celebrated lines in the Commedia: Biondo era e bello e di gentile aspett...