FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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In the southern hemisphere
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In the northern hemisphere
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In Florence
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In Rome
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Detailed explanation-1: -The displaced dirt eventually piled up in the southern hemisphere and it became Mount Purgatory (Inferno XXXIV, 121–24). Dante placed the Garden of Eden at the top of Mount Purgatory (Purgatorio XXVIII, 91–96).
Detailed explanation-2: -Dante portrays Purgatory as an island-mountain in the Southern Hemisphere. This realm is divided into three parts. The bottom slopes of Mount Purgatory (Purgatorio I–IX) have been designated as “Ante-Purgatory” by commentators.
Detailed explanation-3: -It’s at the south pole, directly opposite from the city of Jerusalem; and it’s at the tail-end of Hell. Dante even gives us the story of how the island of Purgatory was created in Inferno, Canto XXIV.
Detailed explanation-4: -For Dante, Purgatory is not only a place where you pay the debts you incurred when you sinned: it is in fact the place where you reflect on those sins, and where you change the psychological tendencies which led you to sin. This leads to extraordinary richness in the depiction of character.
Detailed explanation-5: -Dante now encounters Forese on the terrace of gluttony, where the emaciated spirits (their eyes sunk so far back into their sockets the face resembles the letter M) suffer excruciating hunger and thirst.