TY - BOOK AU - Dante Alighieri AU - Norton,Charles Eliot TI - The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory AV - PQ PY - 1999/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English KW - Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy; Release date is 1999-12-01; Dianne Bean; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory" by Dante Alighieri is a narrative poem written between 1308 and 1321. This second part of Dante's epic journey follows the poet as he climbs Mount Purgatory, guided by Virgil. Here, souls undergo purification for their sins across nine rings, confronting the seven deadly sins through various trials. The ascent represents the penitent Christian life—the soul's painful but hopeful transformation before reaching Heaven. Blending medieval theology with vivid allegory, Purgatorio explores divine justice and redemption's transformative power. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1996 ER -