To course across more kindly waters now / my talent’s little vessel lifts her sails, / leaving behind herself a sea so cruel // And what I sing will be that second kingdom, / in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, / becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven. The first two tercets of Purgatorio read as follows: Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew, “I’d ha’ been a better man all my life if I’d known there were things like this” (107). The poet’s depiction of scaling Mount Purgatory confirms the depth of the Cabby’s remarks while listening to Narnia being sung into being, as described in C. This canticle captures the most beautiful part of the story because it reveals the potent connection between beauty and moral growth. The souls whom we find on Mount Purgatory are essentially the people who, now dead, said, “I’m sorry, I realize that I messed up in life.” These are the souls who are afforded the opportunity to climb this mountain. Dante placed the Garden of Eden at the top of Mount Purgatory ( Purgatorio XXVIII, 91–96). The displaced dirt eventually piled up in the southern hemisphere and it became Mount Purgatory ( Inferno XXXIV, 121–24). When Satan hit the earth, he tunneled a hole, probably in the way a dog digs dirt when it wants to bury something.

At that point, as the land in the southern hemisphere saw Satan falling, it migrated in horror to the north, leaving only a body of water in its wake. Mount Purgatory was created, according to Dante’s poem, when Satan, due to his own arrogant choices, fell to his own demise and struck our planet Earth. Moreover, Dante imagines that there was only one land mass in the southern hemisphere-and that was Mount Purgatory. Dante imagines and writes about hell as a chasm that went to the very center of the earth where he portrays Satan pinned in ice up to his chest. And here is how it came to be created: According to the Ptolemaic conception, the earth is at the center of the universe. Dante imagined his Purgatory as a mountain in the southern hemisphere, about three thousand miles high (Sayers 69). 4 September 2018 by bobhud Dante’s Purgatorio: Awakening to Self-BecomingĪccording to Dorothy Sayers, Dante’s Purgatorio is the part of the poem that is the least read, but the most loved of the three canticles (9).

The divine comedy purgatory