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Dante Alighieri's epic poem travels through the endless agony of Hell, up the treacherous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the wondrous kingdom of Paradise-- the realm of universal unity and eternal salvation.

Purgatory is the second part of Dante's The Divine Comedy. We find the Poet, with his guide Virgil, ascending the terraces of the Mount of Purgatory inhabited by those doing penance to expiate their sins on earth. There are the proud - forced to circle their terrace for eons bent double in humility, the slothful - running around crying out examples of zeal and sloth, while the lustful are purged by fire.

The first section of Dante's Divine Comedy.

"They yearn for what they fear for."- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno

In the first part of Divine Comedy, Dante, guided by the poet Virgil, plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. By fusing humor and satire with intellect, an immortal Christian allegory of humankind's search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment was

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In his introduction, the translator says: "I suppose that a very great majority of English-speaking people, if they were asked to name the greatest epic poet of the Christian era in Western Europe, would answer Dante." The Divine Comedy continues to be widely read today, whether for its religious inspiration or for the sheer power of its verse. The first part of the epic, The Inferno, tells how the narrator "loses his way," and finds

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