Italian poet Dante Alighieri was himself profoundly influenced by the Aeneid, so much so that his magnum opus The Divine Comedy, itself widely considered a part of the western canon, was written in a style similar to the Aeneid and featured the author Virgil as a major character-the guide of Dante through the realms of the Inferno and Purgatorio.

* Ramogna is mentioned only once in Italian literature, precisely in Dante's Divina Commedia ( Purgatorio XI, 25 ).

The name Dolce Stil Novo was used for the first time by Dante Alighieri ( Canto 24, Purgatorio ), in fact when he arrives in the Purgatory he met Bonagiunta Orbicciani, a 13th-century Italian poet, who tells Dante that Dante himself, Guinizzelli and Cavalcanti had been able to create a new genre: a stil novo.

Arachne in Gustave Doré's illustration for Dante Alighieri | Dante's Divine Comedy | Purgatorio

Even in Dante's time there were signs of this change ; in his Purgatorio he had portrayed the penance for acedia as running continuously at top speed.

Mahler occasionally used a five-movement structure for his symphonies rather than the more traditional four-movement structure, and for the Tenth he devised a convincing symmetrical structure with two large slow movements enclosing a core of faster inner movements, at the very centre of which is the deceptive Purgatorio movement.

Although he finally chose not to use it, the draft version of the epigraph for the poem came from Dante's Purgatorio ( XXVI, 147-148 ):

The Purgatorio is notable for demonstrating the medieval knowledge of a spherical Earth.

These two movements ( Adagio and Purgatorio ) were prepared for publication by Franz Schalk and Ernst Krenek in 1924.

He is perhaps best remembered for the praise heaped on him by other poets: he is praised by Dante Alighieri in the De vulgari eloquentia, and in the Purgatorio of The Divine Comedy is made the type of patriotic pride.

Las Animas County takes its name from the Mexican Spanish name of the Purgatoire River, originally called El Río de las Ánimas Perdidas en Purgatorio, which means " River of the Lost Souls in Purgatory.

* Church of the Anime Sante del Purgatorio (" Holy Souls of the Purgatory ").

* Dante's Paradise, in his Divine Comedy, is the subject of Hyperborean allusions: it is figured geographically north of Purgatory ; and, great and little bears ( symbols of the polar north ) appear above the summit of Mount Purgatorio.

The Purgatorio movement ( originally entitled Purgatorio oder Inferno — Purgatory or Hell — but the word " Inferno " was struck out ) is a brief vignette presenting a struggle between alternately bleak and carefree melodies with a perpetuum mobile accompaniment, that are soon subverted by a diabolical undercurrent of more cynical music.

* Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii ( Treatise on Saint Patrick's Purgatory ), a Latin text of c. 1180-84

The Chiesa dell ' Anime del Purgatorio ( Church of the Souls of Purgatory ) features some stucco work in the eastern end and an 18th-century organ.

Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii is a 12th-Century account in Latin of a pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory.

He is one of the two pagans presented by Dante as saved souls encountered in Purgatorio, the other being Statius ( Cantos XX-XXII ).

Holofernes is depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Monk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales, and in Dante's Purgatorio ( where Holofernes is to be found on the Terrace of Pride as an example of ' pride cast down ').

Montague and Capulet were actual 13th-century political factions, but the only connection between them is a mention in Dante's Purgatorio as an example of civil dissension.

Vernaccia is mentioned by Dante Alighieri ( Purgatorio XXIV ) as leading to Pope Martin IV's gluttony.

The connection is first made in the Oration of Constantine appended to the Life of Constantine by Eusebius of Caesarea ( a reading to which Dante makes fleeting reference in his Purgatorio ).

This work was eleven years in the making, and is based on the medieval Tuscan character Pia de ' Tolomei ( mentioned briefly in Dante's Purgatorio ).

His didactic poem, L ’ ensenhamen d ’ onor, and his love songs and satirical pieces have little in common with Dante's presentation, but the invective against negligent princes which Dante puts into his mouth in the 7th canto of the Purgatorio is more adequately parallelled in his sirventes-planh ( 1237 ) on the death of his patron Blacatz, where he invites the princes of Christendom to feed on the heart of the hero.

In 1924 Krenek made a fair copy of only the first ( Adagio ) and third ( Purgatorio ) movements, and might have made a fair copy of the second movement, but as Mahler's draft of the Scherzo was very much patchier this was evidently less feasible.

The first three tracks of the album represent the Inferno ( Watt's illness up until the time the abscess burst ); the second three songs represent the Purgatorio ( Watt's surgery and subsequent recovery ), and the final three represent the Paradisio ( Watt's resuming his everyday life and career ).

* Virgil ( often spelled Vergil ), Dante the pilgrim's guide in the Inferno and part of the Purgatorio

Dante Alighieri | Dante and Virgil encounter Sordello in Purgatorio, part of the: it: Monumento a Dante a Trento | Monumento a Dante a Trento by Cesare Zocchi ( 1896 ).

Part II of Dante's Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, has almost certainly been the best known source since the Renaissance.

In Dante's Purgatorio, the penitent walks within flames to purge himself of lustful / sexual thoughts and feelings.

In Dante's The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, Canto XX, verses 103-105, Dante uses Virgil's version of Pygmalion to represent greed.

Poetry: Cato appears as a character in Dante's Purgatorio.

* Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio

Towards the end of the canto, the Make it new ideograms from Canto LIII reappear as the poem moves back towards the world of myth, closing with another phrase from the Divine Comedy, this time from Purgatorio, Canto XXVIII.

* Purgatorio ( from The Divine Comedy ( Symphony No. 1 ))

He subsequently acted as general editor of the California Lectura Dantis, a collection of essays on the Comedy ; two volumes, on the Inferno and Purgatorio, have been published.

The following tour a year later added the first two songs of the " Purgatorio " section.

" Ciardi's translation of The Purgatorio followed in 1961 and The Paradiso in 1970.

* Alighieri, Dante, Purgatorio, Canto VII, l. 115ff.

Dante writes about the soul of the former in Purgatorio, vi.

* Church of Purgatorio.

* The church of Santa Maria Consolatrice degli Afflitti, simply known as Chiesa del Purgatorio, dating from 1643 and consecrated in 1667.

In Purgatorio, of the selfsame work, the penitents choose to walk through flames in order to purge themselves of their lustful inclinations.

The decoration of the lower walls, unprecedented in the history of art, are richly decorated with a great deal of subsidiary work connected with Dante, specifically the first eleven books of his Purgatorio, and with the poets and legends of antiquity.

# Purgatorio.

* The Purgatorio, 1961.