FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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The souls of those who are ready to enter heaven
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The souls of those who are not yet ready to purge their sins
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The souls of those who are about to enter hell
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The souls of the repentant who are punished for their sins
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Detailed explanation-1: -First, he imagines Purgatory as being divided up into seven terraces, each one corresponding to a vice (in the order that Dante sees them: Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Avarice and Prodigality, Gluttony and Lust).
Detailed explanation-2: -The first official terrace of Purgatory is home to the prideful souls. Dante and Virgil encounter both the exemplars of the virtue opposed to pride, such as the life of Mary, and watch as souls are purged of their pride through trials. Some of these souls were proud of their own creation, others of their birth or rank.
Detailed explanation-3: -These are the souls of those who were killed violently, and who repented in the last moments of their lives. Three of them speak out to say who they are. First, Iacopo del Cassero (d.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Di che potenza vieni?” an old farmer had asked the godfather: “From what power dost thou come?” Purgatory, like the other two canticles of what Dante called his “sacred” epic, Inferno and Paradise, takes place during Easter week in 1300.