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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

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Purgatorio

Canto I - The Shores of Purgatory. The Four Stars. Cato of Utica. The Rush.

4 mins

Canto II - The Celestial Pilot. Casella. The Departure.

4 mins

Canto III - Discourse on the Limits of Reason. The Foot of the Mountain. Those who died in Contumacy of Holy Church. Manfredi.

4 mins

Canto IV - Farther Ascent. Nature of the Mountain. The Negligent, who postponed Repentance till the last Hour. Belacqua.

4 mins

Canto V - Those who died by Violence, but repentant. Buonconte di Monfeltro. La Pia.

4 mins

Canto VI - Dante’s Inquiry on Prayers for the Dead. Sordello. Italy.

4 mins

Canto VII - The Valley of Flowers. Negligent Princes.

4 mins

Canto VIII - The Guardian Angels and the Serpent. Nino di Gallura. The Three Stars. Currado Malaspina.

4 mins

Canto IX - Dante’s Dream of the Eagle. The Gate of Purgatory and the Angel. Seven P’s. The Keys.

4 mins

Canto X - The Needle’s Eye. The First Circle: The Proud. The Sculptures on the Wall.

4 mins

Canto XI - The Humble Prayer. Omberto di Santafiore. Oderisi d’ Agobbio. Provenzan Salvani.

4 mins

Canto XII - The Sculptures on the Pavement. Ascent to the Second Circle.

4 mins

Canto XIII - The Second Circle: The Envious. Sapia of Siena.

4 mins

Canto XIV - Guido del Duca and Renier da Calboli. Cities of the Arno Valley. Denunciation of Stubbornness.

4 mins

Canto XV - The Third Circle: The Irascible. Dante’s Visions. The Smoke.

4 mins

Canto XVI - Marco Lombardo. Lament over the State of the World.

4 mins

Canto XVII - Dante’s Dream of Anger. The Fourth Circle: The Slothful. Virgil’s Discourse of Love.

4 mins

Canto XVIII - Virgil further discourses of Love and Free Will. The Abbot of San Zeno.

4 mins

Canto XIX - Dante’s Dream of the Siren. The Fifth Circle: The Avaricious and Prodigal. Pope Adrian V.

4 mins

Canto XX - Hugh Capet. Corruption of the French Crown. Prophecy of the Abduction of Pope Boniface VIII and the Sacrilege of Philip the Fair. The Earthquake.

4 mins

Canto XXI - The Poet Statius. Praise of Virgil.

4 mins

Canto XXII - Statius’ Denunciation of Avarice. The Sixth Circle: The Gluttonous. The Mystic Tree.

4 mins

Canto XXIII - Forese. Reproof of immodest Florentine Women.

4 mins

Canto XXIV - Buonagiunta da Lucca. Pope Martin IV, and others. Inquiry into the State of Poetry.

4 mins

Canto XXV - Discourse of Statius on Generation. The Seventh Circle: The Wanton.

4 mins

Canto XXVI - Sodomites. Guido Guinicelli and Arnaldo Daniello.

4 mins

Canto XXVII - The Wall of Fire and the Angel of God. Dante’s Sleep upon the Stairway, and his Dream of Leah and Rachel. Arrival at the Terrestrial Paradise.

4 mins

Canto XXVIII - The River Lethe. Matilda. The Nature of the Terrestrial Paradise.

4 mins

Canto XXIX - The Triumph of the Church.

4 mins

Canto XXX - Virgil’s Departure. Beatrice. Dante’s Shame.

4 mins

Canto XXXI - Reproaches of Beatrice and Confession of Dante. The Passage of Lethe. The Seven Virtues. The Griffon.

4 mins

Canto XXXII - The Tree of Knowledge. Allegory of the Chariot.

4 mins

Canto XXXIII - Lament over the State of the Church. Final Reproaches of Beatrice. The River Eunoe.

4 mins

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